Saturday

[ringsandcoffee]

I've done what I hoped to do today, for the most part. This included sleeping in, going to Home Goods and World Market, and cracking open my newest cookbook. One of the food bloggers I follow on posted about this book on IG, and it looked like something I could do. Looking through the recipes, there's a lot of kale...I actually don't mind kale, but it's a lot of prep work. I think. I've never actually prepped it. Anyway, I used sticky note flags to mark recipes I want to make. When I'll make them is another story. I still have two other baking books waiting for me. Plus, I need to see if my current book has something that will use up the 4 bananas I purposely left uneaten.

Speaking of eating, why am I feeling weird after my bagel and cream cheese? Could have something to do with the overabundance of coffee I've consumed today.

Oh, I also wanted to maybe make millionaire's shortbread, but that will have to wait a while.

So the popular thing lately is Marie Kondo's show on Netflix. I remember her book coming out a few years ago, but fewer people seemed to take notice of that. However, I don't need the KonMari method. I declutter on a regular basis. I just get aggravated when things are disorganized or take up too much space. Not that my house is by any means spotless. The chair I never sit in is currently the home of 3 dresses that I need to donate to an organization that provides free prom dresses to girls in need. They are old bridesmaid dresses; fancy but not blingy or outlandish. One is cocktail length. One has a lot of snags in the tulle at the bottom, though I don't think they are too obvious. Plus, the dress can be shortened to cocktail length if they wanted to. How do I know this? The sample at Nordstrom had one that had been shortened. However, it's a lot of layers of tulle, and it cost an arm and a leg to get it shortened and taken in for me.

I think I'll watch Ant Man, so I can eventually watch the sequel before it's taken off Netflix. It's been a good day to relax.

Comments

[amaranthes.livejournal.com]

I swear everyone has been talking about that Marie Kondo thing! It kind of amazes me haha. Mind you, my house needs a bit of a decluttering right now, maybe I should watch it...

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

It might help some people. Me, I don't have too much trouble letting things go after a while. I am still emotionally attached to some items, but those are pretty organized. I just got rid of maybe 8 pairs of dressier shoes that I thought I might need to wear again someday. Some things it takes longer for me to let go of, but I eventually do.

Some people like clutter, and I've come to realize that if it's not hurting them, then it's no big deal.

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

However, I don't need the KonMari method. I declutter on a regular basis. I just get aggravated when things are disorganized or take up too much space. Not that my house is by any means spotless.

You and me both.

[meathiel]

KonMari seems to be all the hype ... but I don't get it!

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

I want to watch just to see what it is, but I don't need it for myself.

[jessibobessi.livejournal.com]

I watched one episode of that show and got so angry, I definitely couldn't watch it anymore. Sure, I could make my house spotless and insanely organized if I had a month off (which it what takes the couples on this show to do this) and had a professional cleaner telling me exactly what to do.

Some of her methods also don't vibe with me.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Without having seen the show or your house besides what you have posted, I'm still pretty sure yours is not in a terrible state.

Spotless is never going to happen. I just have to make myself do a little here and there each day, or every couple of days. Today, however, I did a bunch more purging and cleaning. The purging was a bunch of my friend's stuff that she left here when she moved back to CA, and some shoes I've not worn in years and probably never will. Oh and I made banana bread.

[brittdreams.livejournal.com]

Wait, are the Marvel movies all about to leave Netflix???

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Not that I know of. I just sometimes go to watch something on my list and find it's gone. I swear they removed Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings for a time. I was going to watch one day (and didn't want to put in the dvd) and it was not on at all. A while later, it's back on my list. No idea what that was about.

[brittdreams.livejournal.com]

So weird!

[batmarg.livejournal.com]

Oh Homegoods. I have a hard time not over-spending in there. lol

I did such a major declutter with the move that I haven't felt the need to try it.