Amanda Welker's Homemaking Adventures

 The first step in the KonMarie method is to go through all of your clothes and only keep the clothes that spark joy. The way to go about this is to put every single piece of clothing in a pile and start sorting. So, yesterday, that is what I did. I gathered every single piece of clothing I could find and put it all in a pile. NASA would've considered the mound of clothing its own planet. I started sorting. 6 hours of sorting through clothes that I wore to work in 2016, clothes that I would go clubbing in 2010, everything in between and what I currently wear daily, I proudly boasted six bags of clothes that I will be donating. I then looked at what I had left.     What I had left was a pile of clothing that looked very similar to the size of the pile of clothing I had before. I am still very confused on how that happened. So I decided to try to wash all the clothing before putting it away. At this point, it was like midnight and I had the day off today (Wednesday). I deci...

      This week I really did not have time to do much. I really wanted to meet my goals of reading and notating The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo so I could get started with trying her method for the month so I could rate it for you all. That didn't quite happen as I did not have a moment to even crack open the book until last night! It has been so difficult trying to juggle my job as a bartender now that my schedule has been changed to five clopens (close then open) per week and just being able to do something as simple as reading one hour per day.      There is something to be said about slow beginnings though. It feels like a snowball effect in the brain. Even just this simple act of spending a half hour writing this is a step. And after that, I'll be able to take another step in that direction. Each step compounds on the work that I have already laid down. Even if I go at the rate of reading one hour per day, I should have this book f...