My pantry… I’ve posted about it before with all the messy before pictures and the satisfying after pictures but it doesn’t magically stay nice and tidy. For me it’s one of those things that require my attention occasionally. It just went though a thorough cleaning again. I’m loving the open floor. I was tripping over things. Now, I can actually walk in there and turn around without some type of calamity happening.   This is hard to look at, I know. It’s almost never this bad but it had reached an all time low.   But look! It cleaned up real well. 🙂   My appliance counter before. Just awful!!…

As I mentioned in my last post, Marie Kondo suggests a particular way to fold your clothing. At first I thought that it was maybe a little over the top but I’m willing to give anything a try at least once because sometimes the very idea you scorn is the one that really delivers the best results. So I tried it and I was impressed. It may seem like extra steps to fold but really it goes just as fast as normal folding once you’ve learned how to do it. I didn’t get a chance to put a video together but here is one that is quite thorough. The idea…

I’m still going strong on decluttering my closet the KonMari way; but things had to get worse before they got better. Seriously, I had such a mess going on. A few years back I got rid of my dresser and decided to just use the shelves in my closet. I have a large bookcase in my room and that combined with the dresser was just too much. My husband was not using the dresser at all and all that it was being used for was some miscellany along with my underclothes. A huge dresser for only a little bit of stuff. I was tired of the room it took up…