by Amanda Brockman | Jan 18, 2021 | Family, Home Maintenance
Week 5 of the Marie Kondo Tidy Challenge was by far the most time-consuming week. Week 5 of the Marie Kondo 8-Week Challenge focuses on komono, which is everything not included in clothes, books, papers, and sentimental items. How on earth anyone could fit all of the...
by Amanda Brockman | Dec 28, 2020 | Family, Home Maintenance
Week 4 of the Marie Kondo Tidy Challenge was by far the most difficult week so far. Not in that it was hard to do, but it was just extraordinarily dull work. Sorting through papers is by far one of my least favorite tasks to do in keeping up my house. Nonetheless, I...
by Amanda Brockman | Dec 21, 2020 | Family, Home Maintenance
Week 3 of the Marie Kondo Tidy Challenge focuses on books and magazines. The way the days are split up on her website really splits the week up significantly for books. Again, I didn’t keep to the exact day splits that she has, but this week, I did do the challenge...
by Amanda Brockman | Dec 14, 2020 | Family, Home Maintenance
Week 2 of the Marie Kondo Tidy Challenge focuses completely on clothes. On her website, Marie Kondo recommends splitting the tasks up into individuals days. On the first day, you are supposed to take out all of your clothes and pile them into one place. I could not...
by Amanda Brockman | Dec 7, 2020 | Family, Home Maintenance
Since having a baby, my house has felt increasingly cluttered and disorganized. Often, over the past two years, I have considered doing a Marie Kondo tidy challenge to get everything in order. I even tried starting it a few times, only to lose steam and give up after...
by Amanda Brockman | Nov 23, 2020 | Home Maintenance
Replacing a radon mitigation system is something I never thought I’d be doing. Honestly, when I first bought the house we live in now, I didn’t even know what a radon system is. The realtor kept making a huge deal out of this radon system and how great it was that the...
