{"id":40671,"date":"2019-01-08T19:08:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T00:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=40671"},"modified":"2020-01-05T13:32:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T18:32:07","slug":"tidying-up-our-house-with-marie-kondo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=40671","title":{"rendered":"Tidying Up Our House with Marie Kondo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day we were taking a family walk, and Charles told me that there was a new series on Netflix called Tidying Up<\/em>.\u00a0 I had read the book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up<\/em><\/a> by Marie Kondo, and I was curious now about this series.\u00a0 Then while making dinner, I received the following text from my mom.<\/p>\n

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So, what did we do but sit down and watch three episodes and loved it.\u00a0 I agree with Mom.\u00a0 Marie is just adorable and does have AMAZING skin.<\/p>\n

Watching the episodes inspired us so much that after church on Sunday Charles and I went to work in our closets.\u00a0 I don’t know what I was thinking, but I wish I had taken a “before” shot of Charles’s closet.\u00a0 Picture these clothes stuffed everywhere.\u00a0 You\u00a0 couldn’t even see the shelves.\u00a0 I had stuff on the floor of my closet which was a big mess, and a dresser full of random clothes and things.\u00a0 I should add here that we had our closets designed and customized with shelves shortly after we moved in to maximize on the space we each had.<\/p>\n

The Stuff<\/h2>\n

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Marie’s first step is to put all of your clothes in a pile.\u00a0 This is a crucial step because you need to see everything at once.This isn’t close to everything, but\u00a0 how depressing on how many clothes we had.\u00a0 There were so many that we never wore and just didn’t like but for some reason held onto them.<\/p>\n

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The cute thing when we were working on this Little Miss saw us and then decided to go in her room and fold away and organize.\u00a0 Here she is folding her ballet leotard. The looks on her face proved she was so proud when she wanted to show us. It was adorable.<\/p>\n

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Marie Kondo has a different technique for folding, and seriously, it is life changing.\u00a0 You can get so much more in a drawer and actually see what you have.\u00a0 We used EasyClosets<\/a> to build our closets which we absolutely\u00a0LOVE and even more so now.\u00a0 The drawers we chose are not that deep so we can fit so many more shirts in using this method.<\/p>\n

Charles’s Closet<\/h2>\n

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Here is the “after” of Charles’s closet.\u00a0 I’m really sorry that I don’t have a “before.”\u00a0 Sorry y’all\u00a0#badblogger, but we were living in the moment.\u00a0 Now, he has shelves to spare, and we could not see these shelves before.<\/p>\n

My Closet after Tidying\u00a0 Up<\/h2>\n

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Here is my closet.\u00a0 \u00a0I designed it a little differently than his again using EasyClosets<\/a>.\u00a0 I made an area for dresses.\u00a0 \u00a0 I have a door rack on the door for my shoes.<\/p>\n

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Here I have a box I purchased from Ikea that is storing some of my summer clothes.\u00a0 I can put it on top or under the bed, but it works great tucked in the corner.<\/p>\n

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Now it is easy to just open up and see what I have before I shop for summer clothes.\u00a0 I will swap out and pull out the shorts and tops for the summer and store the winter clothes in here.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

This is an old picture from our Syracuse house, but this dresser is currently in our master bedroom.\u00a0 We have been talking about relocating it to our son’s room and painting it.\u00a0 In order to do so, we needed to get it empty, and now it is completely\u00a0empty!!!!<\/p>\n

The Results<\/h2>\n

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The final result.\u00a0 Two large bags of trash and these four bags of clothes to be donated.\u00a0 Of course, Gracie saw the camera come out and wanted to be in this post!!<\/p>\n

So have y’all\u00a0watched the Tidying Up series?\u00a0 What did you think?\u00a0 Let me know if you have jumped on the bandwagon.<\/p>\n

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Cheers!<\/p>\n

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The other day we were taking a family walk, and Charles told me that there was a new series on Netflix called Tidying Up.\u00a0 I had read the book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo, and I was curious now about this series.\u00a0 Then while making dinner, I received the following text […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40671"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43601,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40671\/revisions\/43601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}