Why KonMari?

Why I chose to get organised with the KonMari Method™

I live in a tiny home.  It's a bricks and mortar home, but under 500 sq feet of space. With a growing family we planned to move somewhere bigger, I embraced the adage that you should live the life you want now and started to gather the things I needed for my new home.  Surely I would have space for a large desk and a dedicated craft area, and I would definitely need those extra bedside cabinets for the children.  Extra crockery and cutlery? Yes please.

My disorganised tiny home filled up with boxes and furniture stacked in every available space. The  hallways and bedsides lined with belongings only leaving a narrow track to walk down.

Without consciously realising it I had become a hoarder, ready for a future life I was going to live instead of the one I was living now.

my bedside table pre-KonMari

And then our circumstances changed.

A move was no longer going to happen anytime soon and so I tried to get organised.  As I began to tidy I became a storage expert moving my belongings around the house utilising every inch of space.  I would clear and tidy an area, a cupboard or a drawer and the result was a pile of objects that were going to fit in elsewhere, once I sorted that other cupboard or room or drawer.

my bedside post-KonMari

It was the discovery of Marie Kondo's book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up and applying the KonMari Method™ to my decluttering that made the big difference.  Tidying by category was the revelation for me. The organised tiny home became a possibility.

Kate