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listening to Marie Kondo's book this morning at work. I am somewhat familiar with her method. When she had her Netflix show, a friend really liked watching it and I would watch it with them. It was really inspiring, but I didn't feel like I could apply it then. But I always had the idea of how to do it in my head "Get all items of like category together and then sort through them" instead of doing it room by room or drawer by drawer. So far I have been cleaning the later way, just because I feel like getting everything together at once would be really overwhelming to me. But now I am starting to get things worked down and it is getting to "I have done most primary cleaning, but I need to actually organize now" and that's getting to be hard for me. Some day this upcoming week I am going to fill a table with every single pot and pan I can find and have my dad go through them with me. He really seems unwilling to get rid of certain stuff, but maybe if he sees how much we really have all in once space, it might change his mind? I know when I was cleaning utensils and small kitchen tools I threw out a lot because there was three or even four or more of the same exact item. There are a lot of pans we are keeping that we never use. Realistically I can only think of 4 pans we use weekly.
I think all of in the house have some hoarding tendencies to some extent. I remember a few years back organizing my craft supplies with my mom and there were things I felt very unwilling to throw away because of the "What if I want/need them again some day" but I have come across most of those items in storage recently and guess what? I actually never desired to use them, so I tossed or donated them. I think realizing that really just kinda .. shook the hoarding tendencies out of me. I now have a storage tote I am throwing "I'm not sure" about items in, and when it gets full (it's an 18 gallon tote) I will cull through it. So far I don't think I am holding onto unnecessary items. There are things I have a lot of, but I haven't organized through them yet. The biggest thing for me to tackle will be books and magazines I think. I am waiting until I get my own bookshelf for my room before I start going through them, but I have it in my mind as something I really need to do because I have books all over the house and most of them probably are of no use to me anymore.
