Nice article! I enjoyed how you transitioned from the anecdote about your neighbor, into how it applied to your life and made you think. There's definitely something to be said for having a clean space. I've heard it called the "golf course effect" Something about having things uncluttered on the outside gives a serene feeling on the inside.
I definitely feel less stressed whenever I've given my place a good cleaning. Very stressed while doing the cleaning though... You have to wonder where is the sweet spot?
Six dumpsters is genuinely wild. The drawer purge angle is smart tho, sometimes external chaos makes us look inward. Noticed similar thing hapening when a friend moved and seeing their stuff pile up made me realize how much random kitchen gadgets I'd been ignoring for months. Small scale hoarding is just easier to justify until something bigger puts it in perspetive.
I recently decluttered my closet and that sparked joy for me! I'm glad your kitchen drawers got cleaned out. Thank god for your neighbor or else they might have stayed like that forever haha
Yet again, I find this super relatable! I've always called myself an organized pack-rat, because while my house is fairly tidy, I'm an expert at stacking and keeping things in boxes stored under beds and closets (or worse, the attic! you don't want to go up there!) But slowly over the last handful of years, I've really been working on reevaluating my things, deciding which to let go of, which to keep etc. My husband is not a keeper of things, very few things he keeps, photographs etc (similar to you) while I, must have it all haha it's a slow progression, but I'll get there!
I can totally understand the impulse to keep things. I'm sure there is a joy in rediscovering something you haven't seen for a while. The only problem for me is I get that same level of joy from throwing stuff away! 😂
Thanks for reading! I'm glad you were also able to take something away from me creeping on me neighbors.
Nice article! I enjoyed how you transitioned from the anecdote about your neighbor, into how it applied to your life and made you think. There's definitely something to be said for having a clean space. I've heard it called the "golf course effect" Something about having things uncluttered on the outside gives a serene feeling on the inside.
I definitely feel less stressed whenever I've given my place a good cleaning. Very stressed while doing the cleaning though... You have to wonder where is the sweet spot?
Six dumpsters is genuinely wild. The drawer purge angle is smart tho, sometimes external chaos makes us look inward. Noticed similar thing hapening when a friend moved and seeing their stuff pile up made me realize how much random kitchen gadgets I'd been ignoring for months. Small scale hoarding is just easier to justify until something bigger puts it in perspetive.
It's definitely weird that witnessing others chaos can bring us to such a realization! Thanks for reading
I recently decluttered my closet and that sparked joy for me! I'm glad your kitchen drawers got cleaned out. Thank god for your neighbor or else they might have stayed like that forever haha
Yet again, I find this super relatable! I've always called myself an organized pack-rat, because while my house is fairly tidy, I'm an expert at stacking and keeping things in boxes stored under beds and closets (or worse, the attic! you don't want to go up there!) But slowly over the last handful of years, I've really been working on reevaluating my things, deciding which to let go of, which to keep etc. My husband is not a keeper of things, very few things he keeps, photographs etc (similar to you) while I, must have it all haha it's a slow progression, but I'll get there!
I can totally understand the impulse to keep things. I'm sure there is a joy in rediscovering something you haven't seen for a while. The only problem for me is I get that same level of joy from throwing stuff away! 😂
Thanks for reading! I'm glad you were also able to take something away from me creeping on me neighbors.