Organization – Cannonball Read 17

I wish I had this book 8 years ago and glad it exists now.

How to Keep House While Drowning: A gentle approach to cleaning and organizing. by KC Davis, lpc

November 3, 2023 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

This past July, I read KatSings review of How to Keep House While Drowning and immediately put it on hold at my library. Eight years ago I was drowning. I was a SAHM who was deeply depressed and feeling very worn down with a sickly four year old and a neurodivergent eight year old. When every day is physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting it’s hard to keep house to the level of “clean” that we often feel morally compelled to do. And because we can’t […]

The strangeness detracts from the usefulness.

November 12, 2017 by Blingle Bells 1 Comment

So. KonMari. I think most of us are at least passingly familiar with it, since the word is a verb now, as in “I KonMari’d so thoroughly last weekend, I donated my husband to Goodwill.” I have some thoughts. The first is that the basic philosophy behind the method – don’t keep anything in your home that doesn’t spark joy – is slightly flawed but extremely useful. She touches on it many times, but I still found the “rules” a little murky on things that […]

It Will Change Your Life!!!

March 27, 2016 by Sophia 3 Comments

I vacillate between a compunction to organize and an amazing ability to be a procrastinating slob. At the moment, I’m leaning more towards the compunction to organize: my condo, my life, my finances, and I thought Marie Kondo’s book might give me some tips. And so I read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (2014). Organizing seems pretty straight forward to me, and began reading wondering how Kondo would have enough to fill a book. How many different […]

If everything were perfect and your house were set up exactly the way you want it, what would it look like?

May 21, 2015 by Halbs 3 Comments

My family sold our house earlier this month, and packing has been a nightmare. Despite giving away and selling most of our books, DVDs, and clothes, it still felt like we had way too much stuff for the size of our family. Part of it was that we had lived in the house for several years so things naturally accumulated. Part of it was having a six-month old baby. (Babies come thousands of items, most of them on the floor.) Part of it was that […]

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