she's taking the world by storm her
battlecry organizing and beauty I'm
talking about Marie Kondo she's written
four books that now has a show on
Netflix the world-renowned tidying
expert helps clients clear out the
clutter and choose joy
a local woman and I we got inspired and
took the challenge Kari spec man she's a
social media guru she joins us with what
she's done and of course we have debt a
desi Pappas the digital marketing
manager from goodwill both joining us
this morning so thank you so much we're
just like geeking out a second ago
because I took me to episodes and I
completely changed my whole house so
tell me what inspired you to really get
into this new organizing I owned this
slob he's ever met an entire life
there are people I've known for 20 years
who have never been in my house or
apartment Wow
I don't want to freak them out I don't
care freak them out and I'm not just
watching what really struck me is how
she took everything and put it in one
place like a lot of them will will have
you like just start in this corner over
here here's three bins for this you just
put it all there on the bed and the
enormity of it all is what makes you say
wow I need to get rid of some clothes oh
my gosh what she's referring to if you
ever watched the show tidying up
basically she tells you take everything
out of your closet and you're doing it
on your bed everything so really gives
you perspective on how much stuff you
have and look at this I mean you just
this is before let's see the after
picture that's what I started with okay
Wow look at that though so did you kind
of compartmentalize everything like what
she does in the show there oh there's my
clothes oh wow yeah well I didn't I only
you know you're supposed to think your
clothes like that part of it I like to
step for a couple I thank them for the
rise just like and then I was just like
yeah so what Marie Kondo really focuses
on is sparking joy so it's not about
getting rid of a lot of things it's
about to keep being things that really
spark joy in your life that you enjoy
wearing so did you kind of find yourself
a little big right not out I probably am
donating 50 t-shirts to rethreaded
because I have a t-shirt addiction and
I'm just like I don't need all of these
t-shirts yeah so that's you know one
thing but now I'm doing photos which
are very difficult yeah you don't know
what you want to keep and a lot of them
you know you just it's hard to give away
yeah and after two episodes I was
inspired to I don't know if we have some
photos for my drawers it there's a
special way of folding your articles of
clothing now a master like I said this
for my mother she was very happy so it
definitely helps you see what clothes
you have because when I stack my shirts
on top of each other you don't really
know what you have so now I know exactly
what I have what my shirts look like and
now that I have a lot of things to
donate we're gonna get right to desi
here a lot more stuff coming in to
Goodwill yes we love that so this has
been really great for us as far as
donations we're about ten percent higher
than last year so thank you appreciate
it
and in general we will accept any of
those clothing and household items
there's a couple things we shy away from
don't bring us mattresses anything
that's perishable or any ammunition and
Firearms oh it's just sick to tell
people that so bring us all the things
that you no longer that are no longer
sparking joy in your life yea X it'll
spark joy in somebody else absolutely
yes we're here for what kind of advice
do you have people that want to find
articles of clothing or things for their
house when they come to you know some of
these places what should they do make a
list or how do they look for what they
need
absolutely so thrift errs that are new
to the the thrifting world one thing is
we have tag sales every week so this
week's color is blue so when you're out
and about look for those blue tags
you'll get an additional 40% off those
items so it's a great deal also I would
recommend keeping a running list so
maybe you're not looking for you know
you're not gonna run in and get the
exact pair of pants that fit you
perfectly because this is not that type
of store but look for things across the
year so Valentine's is coming up maybe
have some ideas of things you need for
Valentine's Day if you are organizing
keep an eye out for organizational items
so many boxes yeah yeah so we always
have boxes and baskets and things that
will help you organize and then if you
find holes in your ward
I always recommend like keeping a
running list of things that you need I
need white t-shirts I need something for
work things like that because we always
have such a wide variety of items and
you know in this time of decluttering
and everyone's in that kind of trend of
tidying up
you guys are getting a lot of things
with like tags still on a brand new we
get amazing items I mean this dress is a
White House Black Market is how $6.99
yeah they don't go shopping
yeah absolutely the I mean we have some
old navy pants down here they sell the
tags on them brand new things because
you're finding that you're not wearing
but someone else can absolutely use
these items well thank you so much for
joining us ladies the ABCs of oh oh
we're going to get right to Scott thank
you so much