Everything deserves a Home

Girls night always leads to great talks, but on this specific girls night I had learned something so important. Thanks to a great friend who introduced me to "the life-changing magic of tidying up" by Marie Kondo my life is complete. I love to organize, label and make things look pretty, but a week later the mess piled up again. Until now, I kid you not this book truly is life changing.

11 dollars or so later my house is tidied up from head to toe. Ever corner, drawer, and cupboard only holds the items that spark my joy. Crazy right?

Rather going from room to room which is typically the way that most of us clean, you work in categories. First you start with clothes, then books, then papers, then so on. This way you are gathering each category together and going through those items as a whole. Grab contractor size garbage bags and get ready to be amazed. You are going to go clothing item by clothing item touching each one individually and asking yourself "does this spark joy?". It's a simple answer yes or no, never maybe or one day, or this was given to me by my lovely grandma and she would be so upset. She will be more upset that it sat on the bottom of your drawer or on the floor of your closet. I minimized my closet by about 60%. I had so much excitement when I was doing this. The next day I was getting ready and went into my closet, my heart raced when I  looked around and I started to panic. Where have all my clothes gone? Am I crazy for getting rid of everything? The closer and closer I got to the shirts I began to realize the magic of this book. I didn't shuffle through the clothes, I just picked one. It was so easy to just grab a shirt, because I was left with only those that made me happy or sparked joy.

As you continue to read the book you are moving on to other categories and quickly able to discard items that simply aren't necessary to hold on to. The object is to complete this tidying up project in as little time as possible. Dragging out the cleaning process isn't going to help and you will be set back into your old ways.

Here are some photos that I hope inspire you to join me on this journey.

And thank your for giving me joy at one point in my life... farwell

We also had two dumpsters full of garbage piled high that I wish I would have taken a picture of.

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