Should you Kondo your Kitchen?

Didn't I Just Feed You

Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn

Kids & Family, Parenting, Arts, Food

4.9 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Everyone’s talking about Marie Kondo and her KonMari method of organizing, detailed in her best-selling book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, and featured in her runaway Netflix hit, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. Meghan’s a fan and Stacie’s not sold, but they both agree that different rules apply in the kitchen. The catch: they don’t agree on what the rules should be. What happens when nothing in the kitchen sparks joy? Or when a pared-down kitchen leaves little that sparks joy for your kid, who you’d like to see take more ownership in the kitchen? And what about the fact that, as family cooks, our needs are constantly shifting as our children (and their schedules) grow and change? This week, Stacie and Meghan grapple with the idea that, perhaps, joy is not the best guiding principle for busy family cooks trying to organize and pare down their kitchens.

Show notes for this episode can be found at Didn't I Just Feed You.com.

See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I feel like many of our kitchen tools and the things that I find in my kitchen
0:08.9	serve a purpose beyond just sparking joy.
0:13.9	And so for me to sort of like pair it all down doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
0:22.2	Welcome to didn't I just feed you.
0:24.5	A podcast is about feeding us kids.
0:28.5	Hey, I'm Stacy.
0:30.0	And I'm Megan.
0:31.5	Stacey, I feel like this week we want to dive into a subject that's been super popular around the internet with
0:39.4	our own perspectives on it.
0:41.4	So I want to ask you a very personal question.
0:44.6	Have you Marie condoed or Conmaried your kitchen?
0:52.0	So, you know, I moved out of my house. I know last year. Right? Last year. Gosh,
0:58.3	it's all such a blur. Moved out of it and then back into it. And then back in again, right, because I
1:02.5	renovated. So I had two opportunities within nine months to edit everything in my life. And I feel like in a way I did sort of, without realizing
1:18.4	it, Conmarie, my life. I really only brought things back into our renovated home that I really wanted and things that
1:31.0	really fit the new space. The one little caveat there is that we have a storage unit that we can't
1:39.8	access very easily, but we kept it and it cost us a little bit of money and we kind of hemmed and
1:46.0	hot because we were like, oh, is this a waste of money? But I just felt like, uh, like we have this
1:52.4	stuff that still seems really useful. And I was kind of overwhelmed with work and moving in the
1:58.3	renovation. And I didn't have time to put it up for sale and I didn't
2:01.4	want to just give it up at the, you know, Salvation Army because I felt like I could, you know,
2:06.8	get some value out of it. And I just held on to it. And there was no place to store it in my house.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.