It is week 3 of the book club you guys!
Have you joined in with us? How it is going? We are focusing on The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up and well… tidying up 🙂
The book outlines a very specific system to organize your home and purge items that don’t bring you joy. She claims this method is the only one you need and if you do it properly, you won’t ever find your home a in a state of clutter and disarray again.
We have been following her schedule of items to tidy starting with clothing, moving on to books and next week is papers.
I LOVED how the clothing challenge worked out. For books- we moved on to children’s books, my pleasure reading and reference books and cookbooks. That is the bulk of what we have in the house.
My daughter got rid of a ton of books she didn’t want anymore. We donated to school and dropped the rest at Goodwill. The key with Marie Kondo’s method is that she talks about how tidying and organizing shows the items in your home that you have respect for them. Some of what she says is a little out there for me personally but the idea of respecting your things really resonated with me.
This came up for us twice when organizing books- first with my 6 year old. She has a crate in her closet filled with books. She tosses them in there all crazy and messy and haphazard. It makes me NUTS. We sat down and talked about having respect for ourselves by respecting our things. I walked into my closet with a shelf of my own books and magazines and showed her- see how Mommy takes care of things she loves? And then pulled all the books out and put them all back nicely in the crate. This is a lesson that is invaluable these days as everything is so disposable in our society. I really struggle to teach the children to care for things because I won’t just go out and buy them new ones.
The second area was cookbooks. Y’all. The struggle is real. I have a lot. A lot of cookbooks. I love them but guess what? They sit in a high cupboard never touched. So I parted ways with a few and kept the majority. My commitment is to clear a shelf in the pantry where there books are readily available and pick one per week to reference when I do my menu plan. If nothing from the cookbook jumps out at me, I will just pop the book into the donation bag and move on.
AND next week is papers. You can join me on Tuesday at 10am PST on Periscope* to talk papers. I am going to show you guys how I organize all the children’s artwork and such. I really appreciate those of you that have joined us so far!
Here is the DIY for the crate I mentioned my daughter has in her closet:
And if you’d like to download the checklist of how to get started with Marie Kondo’s method, grab that here.
*Periscope is a free app you can find in the app store. You will want to download it, register and then click on the three people icon on the bottom right. That should bring up the search bar to search “frugal adventure” (me!) Click follow and then the app will give you a cute little whistle when I broadcast. If you are able to jump on, you can add live comments for a virtual discussion. Fun! If you can’t log on at that moment, you have 24 hours to go back and watch and then the video vanishes. If you watch the replay at a later time you are able to give hearts (basically a thumbs up to the host by tapping the screen) but you can’t leave comments.
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