Marie Kondo doesn’t talk a lot about digital items. The only aspect she discusses is digital photos (in Spark Joy). However, I want to clear up my digital belongings just like my physical ones, so I decided to go through all my computer files and any sort of ‘online presence’ like email accounts. Essentially, I wanted Read More…
Category: Homemaking
Has Zero Waste Simplified or Complicated Life?
Something I have been wanting to find out since starting my zero waste project back in February is this: has zero waste complicated my life, or simplified it overall? Advocates of the zero waste movement tend to claim that zero waste has simplified their lives. Bea Johnson’s book, Zero Waste Home, is subtitled The ultimate guide to Read More…
Konmari: Kitchen Equipment
The time has come…to declutter the kitchen dishes, pots, pans, utensils, storage containers… Once again, I broke this down into smaller groupings. This was useful not only to create manageable tasks for the time I had, but because it limited things to groups that would fit on my table, so I could work there. First Read More…
Zero Waste Sewing (at The Simple Year)
Today is a special day for me, because it marks my first guest post on another blog: I’m writing about zero waste sewing at The Simple Year. The blog’s current host, Trisha, is sharing her efforts towards a more zero waste home, and I’ve been a follower of her blog for a while now and really enjoyed the Read More…
Konmari: Food
It’s time to sort through the food! I decided to break this into three parts: pantry goods, tea/coffee, and fridge/freezer. Here’s my pantry before I got started. It has fared well since I reorganised it at the start of the year, but since I shop more from the bulk foods now, its contents have changed Read More…
Konmari: Gardening Supplies
Woohoo! We’re getting close to the end of Komono. Gardening supplies was a quick little category and took about 5 minutes. Here’s everything I collected. I left out the plants themselves and the compost, partly reasoning that neither are really ‘gardening supplies’, but mostly just being too lazy to lift them all into one place. There Read More…
Konmari: Electronics
Oh boy. I had to declutter the electronics. This was a joint category, so Mike had to be there for it and thus it took a lot of scheduling; and the sight of a pile of cables just makes my heart wither. Good me, I pulled out the vacuum cleaner even though of course I Read More…
Zero Waste in the Kitchen Update
I’ve been KonMari’ing so much lately that I haven’t written as much about some of my other topics, including my zero waste project. But that still continues, and I’d like to share how things are going in the kitchen specifically. My goal, overall, was to eliminate food packaging as much as possible in favour of using Read More…
Konmari: Advice and Encouragement for Getting Started
A reader recently expressed a desire to start the KonMari process, but was concerned about the practicalities of getting it done with small children in the house and a backlog of other work. It made me think back to when I began, and I realised that I had also had many concerns about beginning. Now Read More…
Konmari: Decor
My next category to tidy up was decor, which included both everyday items in our house and seasonal decorations which are packed away. For everyday decor, I went around the house grabbing everything that seemed to fit the category. This included candles, vases and figurines, magnets on the fridge, clocks, house plants, and pictures on Read More…