MARIE KONDO

What do I know about Marie Kondo? Not much to be honest. I know she is a japanese decluttring specialist and of what I understand you can sum up her philosophy as  follows:

If it doesn't spark joy, out it goes!

I have not read her book, I just got a little summery so far from my friend  Minerva who is totally hooked. She got me to get started, too. 

You are to:

• start with easy first (clothes in her opinion)
• do hard stuff last (emotional stuff like photos)
• thank the stuff you part with for the joy it oncsubcatee brought you
• handle each item individually
• go by categories (clothes, books, etc.)
• get it all out at once
• divide into subcategories if necesarry(e.g.: tops, pants)
• take about 6 months to go through it all

You don't:

• buy new storage containers
• rush through it

So. With that in mind, I went through the first category. Clothes. More to come about that. Minerva introduced me to the concept over the holidays, when I was visiting family. That is why I could only go through it mentally. I started going through my stuff in my head. It was pretty easy. Even without handling it. I just pretended to be picking stuff to get dressed and thought how I felt about putting it on. Way to many tops that didn't spark joy. 2 of the tops even had to stay behind!

surface of the day: boys's clothes transfered to their new room

5 a day: 1 bra, 1 pair of underpants 1 kitchen utensil, a toothbrush, the bumper of a (toy) car,