The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: My experience

Y’all. Tomorrow is huge. Yes, it is the first day of 2019, but I have had a mental countdown going for the new Marie Kondo show coming to Netflix. It premieres tomorrow and I literally could not be more excited.

I read the Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up in 2015 and it changed my life. I implemented the process in my home. I documented the experience in detail, but unfortunately, the internet ate my blog. (If you are just catching up, you can see what I am talking about here.)

So, I wanted to do a brief photo synopsis of my experience.

This is what my closet looked like the day I started. I am actually shuddering looking at this picture. It is so foreign to me now.

I went through the process in the exact way Kondo suggests. This is the way my closet looked after. It’s funny…today my closet is now even more sparse and streamlined than this photo.

I went around my home, following her instructions step by step.

I gathered things into one space by “category” *not by room, this is key* and purged items all at once, one category at a time.

Piles and piles, y’all. Nothing was going to be left behind, and every item in my home needed to be sorted.

So does my house look immaculate? NO. No way! I have three kids and two dogs. It frequently looks like a bomb hit in here. But that is not what the Kondo method is about. It’s about reducing your possessions to items that spark joy in you and getting rid of the rest. So when I look around the room and see LOL dolls, legos, and socks on the floor…I know it’s OK. Those items all simply need to be returned to the spot I have designated as the item’s “home.”

Get the book. Watch the show. If getting clutter under control is something you want to do, you will not regret it.