Nikki J
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- Joined
- Mar 22, 2012
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- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 04/2014
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- US
- State
- MA
- City
- Boston
I think most of us struggle with this. Some of us had a natural tendency to too many things anyway ( I certainly did / do). Add on top of that the new things we need/ accumulate- equipment, different clothes, lots of paperwork , the PALS lessening ability to do household tasks and the CALS overwhelming workload and things can get out of control.
A while back I read a little book on tidying by Marie Kondo. I expect a number of you have too? It was fun to read and she is a little quirky. Since she advocates one big " tidy" which is humanly impossible for me I did nothing. I have just reread her first book and am in the middle of her second. Still can't do what she says but decided to try just her folding method since I was putting away clothes anyway. I have to say they look better and take less room so maybe I can chip away at things a bit. Her criteria for weeding out possessions are different too.
If you are now planning to downsize or CALS in the future when you are restructuring your household give at least the first one a read. I got both through my library system. I don't think you need to own them
A while back I read a little book on tidying by Marie Kondo. I expect a number of you have too? It was fun to read and she is a little quirky. Since she advocates one big " tidy" which is humanly impossible for me I did nothing. I have just reread her first book and am in the middle of her second. Still can't do what she says but decided to try just her folding method since I was putting away clothes anyway. I have to say they look better and take less room so maybe I can chip away at things a bit. Her criteria for weeding out possessions are different too.
If you are now planning to downsize or CALS in the future when you are restructuring your household give at least the first one a read. I got both through my library system. I don't think you need to own them