Meal Prep with Joy!

Meal Prep with Joy!

One of my friends, Allyson Hodge, and her best friend, Jeff Creemer, have the whole meal prep thing totally dialed in. They have been prepping for a year, and pictures of the meals they make every weekend made me want to give it a go. I shamelessly invited myself to Allyson’s house last Saturday to watch her and Jeff prep meals for the week and to ask them a million questions. Their biggest piece of advice was to keep it simple.

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How to Maintain an (almost) Perfect Pantry | KonMari Your Kitchen, Part 2

How to Maintain an (almost) Perfect Pantry | KonMari Your Kitchen, Part 2

We’re continuing our kitchen series this week with how to KonMari the food in your pantry! Storing food can quickly become overwhelming, but if you give your pantry a good tidy, your kitchen will be a more relaxing place, and food waste will go down. Here are 4 common problem areas I’ve encountered, and some tips to overcome them:

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How to Keep Your Fridge Tidy | KonMari Your Kitchen, Part 1

How to Keep Your Fridge Tidy | KonMari Your Kitchen, Part 1

One of the benefits of a tidy fridge is that it helps cut down on food waste. Before we KonMari’d our fridge, it wasn’t unusual for us to have 2 jars of opened spaghetti sauce, a couple open jars of peanut butter, old leftovers, stale bread, and produce that had gone bad because they all got hidden in the back of the fridge. Now things are stored by category, and we can easily pull out a bin to access everything in it. Read today’s blog for some simple tips to keep your refrigerator fresh and beautiful.

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3 KonMari Concepts and Teacher-Approved Tips for Back- to-School Success

3 KonMari Concepts and Teacher-Approved Tips for Back- to-School Success

KonMari principles can help make the school year more peaceful, but I also wanted teachers and parents who are currently in the midst of the adventure to weigh in with their best advice. I talked to lots of them and they all kindly answered my questions, but I’m highlighting 4 people in particular because their ideas were extra helpful. Here are some KonMari concepts and teacher-approved tips for starting the school year off right!

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5 KonMari Principles That Can Help Make Moving Easier

5 KonMari Principles That Can Help Make Moving Easier

This week’s Tidy Friday features guest blogger Kelsey Fehlberg! She talks about her recent move and how the KonMari Method™ made it so much easier.

“Even if your mom isn’t a professional organizer, you can still move with the KonMari Method in mind. It made the move a hundred times better than I expected. And, shocker, there weren’t any new revelations or discoveries, just slightly different shades of some Konmari-101 principles…“

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What a Tidy House Looks Like

What a Tidy House Looks Like

It’s been a year since I launched my business, and I can say that I absolutely love working with people to make their home exactly what THEY want it to be. It’s been gloriously fun working with people who’s styles are vastly different from mine. I appreciate and admire their decorating choices, and am incorporating some of their ideas into my own home. If I tried to make everyone’s home look like mine, I would be bored out of my skull by now. Variety is definitely the spice of life.

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