Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Is there an art to tidying up?


Having everything you own packed up, stored, then shipped to you over thousands of miles is unsettling.  

The new home is beautiful!

And then...all your old crap is carried into the house.  

OMG!   So many boxes, so much stuff.   It is difficult for me to sort this stuff out.  
Overwhelming.   

Some things I can't find.   Some things are broken.  Some things are crushed.   

Some things are OK. 

Some things are flat out junk (why did we keep them in the first place?)

And some things make me cry.  Others make me want to scream.  







I've read the popular book, 

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Maria Kondo. 


I think most of us want a relatively clean, healthy, well organized place to live.  For lots of reasons, this is not simple.