I just finished watching Marie Kondo's new show, Tidying Up, on Netflix. If you're not familiar with Marie Kondo she's the best-selling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. Basically, she is the queen of organization. Using...
"No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important." On Sunday, Facebook memories reminded me that it was a year ago since I had read The Life-Changing Magic of...
It's been about two months since I "finished" KonMari-ing my apartment. I put finished in quotes here because I'm technically not all the way through with my tidying. I still have a shelf full of photo albums and other mementos that I am getting through....
"I don't have to do this!" I yelled at the box. And, it's true, I don't have to do this. I don't have to clean my apartment. I don't have to organize everything I own. I don't have to throw anything away. I don't have to...
I spend my entire life cleaning. OK, maybe that's an overstatement. But, no, I spend my entire life cleaning. Or, at least, thinking that maybe I should clean. There's always laundry that somehow gathers in a pile next to the hamper. There's always a sink...
Not all of the things we want to do in life are monumental. Sometimes, a life goal might be seemingly small, simple, mundane, but something we want to accomplish all the same. I've been hoarding cooking magazines for as long as I could remember. In high...
After cleaning out everything from the bedroom at my mom's house it was time to tackle the attic. That's where the real treasures were: the stuff I threw into boxes after high school and after college like those piles of text books and papers I...
Last year I started the massive project of sorting through my life. As I'm getting ready to leave for a year to travel I don't want to leave a mess and certainly don't want to come back to one. I still have so much stuff...
Garage sales freak me out. There, I said it. I've never really been someone who likes to rummage through others old things. I like things that are shiny and new and am one of those people who often buys something and then will wait a really...
Fact: anyone who watches an episode or two of Hoarders or Hoarding will immediately start cleaning. I don't know if there's been any formal research done on the matter, but everyone who brings up the show asserts that same thing. We're all afraid of becoming one...