To move without losing my sanity, I want to first get rid of my extra encumbrances
As told to Elisheva Appel
I work from home as a graphic artist, and I’m also studying to be a health coach, so I’m pretty busy. Since I’m home a lot, I’ve been noticing the vast quantity of stuff that fills my apartment.
I come from a family of hoarders. We save stuff. I have my old high school notebooks, mementos from camp, and that’s just the beginning. I’m organized but not neat, if that makes sense. I know where everything is, but mess doesn’t faze me, so I’m not good at enforcing — or modeling — my kids’ cleanup.
My husband will walk into the kitchen and say, “How do you even work here?” The counters may be cluttered, but that’s how I roll. I don’t crave clean surfaces like he does. For the sake of shalom bayis, I did once splurge on a personal organizer, and I admit it was awesome. My husband was right — our lives were much more functional when things were neat.
We’re going to be moving soon, and I intend to hire an organizer to help me put systems in place, so hopefully good habits will stick. But in order to move without losing my sanity, I want to first get rid of my extra encumbrances.
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