{"id":49540,"date":"2019-02-18T18:35:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T00:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/?p=49540"},"modified":"2019-02-18T18:35:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T00:35:24","slug":"how-marie-kondo-helped-my-tupperware-drawer-and-my-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/articles\/topics\/life-issues\/relationships\/women\/how-marie-kondo-helped-my-tupperware-drawer-and-my-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"How Marie Kondo Helped My Tupperware Drawer … and My Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cAre you pregnant?\u201d My husband, Stuart, was shocked when he walked into our house to find me reorganizing our entire kitchen.<\/p>\n

For the record, I\u2019m not pregnant. What he thought was nesting was simply me going all Marie Kondo on the kitchen.<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019ve recently encountered Marie Kondo. She is an organizational mastermind who authored The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up<\/i> and Spark Joy.<\/i> Plus, Netflix has created a new original show around her tidying method.<\/p>\n

Her “KonMari method” is the process of gathering up all of your belongings and deciding what to keep or toss out. The key, Marie says, is deciding whether or not an item \u201csparks joy.\u201d She has influenced people all over the world to create organized homes. Which, in return, has given people a fresh outlook on life and impacted their relationships.<\/p>\n

Just like it did in our home.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re so different!<\/h2>\n

I should probably give you some background on why my husband thought I was pregnant instead of just tidying up. Simply put: I am not a very organized person. I enjoy being <\/i> organized, I just don\u2019t enjoy organizing.<\/p>\n

When we got married almost seven years ago, we knew we were different. But it wasn\u2019t until we said, \u201cI do,\u201d and started living together that we realized the depth of our opposite personalities.<\/p>\n