Welcome to 2019, where we kicked off the new year by witnessing the inauguration of a monumental, once-in-a-decade TV series: Tidying up with Marie Kondo . There is nothing more satisfying than watching a tiny Asian woman who could win the world’s biggest smile contest going into someone’s home to change their lives, or at least whip their closet into shape. With all-knowing New York Times telling us that cluttering is really bad for you , and minimalists’ spirit animal being on Netflix spurring endless twitter storms and internet articles, there is no better time for the rest of us mortals to pick up a dozen of brown moving boxes, mark them ‘DONATE’ with a sharpie, and start. After years of acquiring stuff like good capitalists we are, what we see in our apartment can look anywhere between overwhelming and outright terrifying. Often we open our closet to start looking for things to get rid of, and in no time organizing turns into a one-woman fashion show showcasing 15 years ...
the journey of buying wisely and letting go unregretfully