still plodding along.

This organizing thing is SO much harder than I expected. I can't even put into words how much harder. Every time I think the end is in sight, I realize just how much more I have to do. And I'm tired. Soooo....tired.  There are still boxes stacked around the front room. But...its like....5 boxes. 5 boxes left out of 2 storage units, one of which was a 5x10 storage unit stacked to the ceiling, which is probably another good 10 to 12 feet. Jeremy has hauled carloads to the Goodwill down the street and has carried boxes and boxes and bags to the dumpster. I have to keep reminding myself how much we have done. It still looks bad, real bad. But when I look back on what has been done, its not so bad.

This portion has almost been an interlude of sorts from KonMari. Not even real KonMari. The only way to tackle it all was to get it from storage but there was so much stuff and so little space here that taking it category by category was just not doable and what I've had to do was take it box by box and get rid of the super obvious stuff, sort and repack specific things like camping gear. So once I finish up this last little bit of stuff from storage, then I have to actually continue the Kondo-ing process by category. And once thats done, then I have to get down to the actual organizing. The organizing is what I was looking forward to, not the discarding.

I don't have much to show for pictures so I will leave you with this. Marie Kondo makes a number of suggestions, most of which sound asinine when you first read the book, but I just have to say...try it. Just try it. You can go back to your old way if you don't like it. She says to take your things out of the shower. All of it. All the bottles and razors and soaps and potions. SHE dries each bottle off and stores under her sink...thats a bit much for me at least right now. I did find that I liked having everything out of the shower though. First I loaded everything up into one basket and stored it on the shelf behind the door and i would just carry the basket over for a shower or bath. But it was heavy and awkward and before long the basket just sat on the side of the tub. So I pulled this shelf out of the coat closet and put in there and grabbed these little plastic baskets from Wal Mart ($2.97 each!) and Jeremy, Lucy and I each have one. So whomever is in the bath can pull their basket out, shower, then put it back. Much easier!

Oh, and we decided that we don't think Marie Kondo poops or farts or anything. I watched an interview with her this morning. I'm convinced. However, she just had a baby. I'm interested to see what sort of monster motherhood turns her into. <evil laugh>