By now you may have noticed how good it feels to get your hands on parts of your life in need of purging that you never would have had the time or focus to tackle before. If you need a change of scenery from organizing physical clutter or if you want to dig deeper into editing parts of your life you can’t see, you’ll learn exactly where to direct your attention in 6 Corners of Invisible Clutter to Organize During Quarantine. 

I’ve been thinking about what I can share with you that is uniquely about organizing that might truly be helpful in a sea of Covid-19 information that you've already heard.

All of us are spending a lot of time at home these days. You’re certainly faced with a lot of stresses today, some of which you can control and others that you can’t. One thing you can control is the clutter that you suddenly can’t escape.

Serena Williams once said “Pressure is a privilege.” It revealed the perspective of difficulty as sometimes being a privilege. If this is true, then the abundance of things, even things we don’t want, could also be privilege.

Is clutter privilege?

On YouTube, my video Minimalism Tutorial 4: The Sweater With Sentimental Value has a reply by someone who was struggling to donate some very sentimental Irish wool sweaters. As I was writing my reply to her, I had a new idea on how to more easily let go of this type of thing.

Gretchen Rubin, author of Outer Order, Inner calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness, was recently interviewed on Good Morning America. It’s a short interview that barely scratches the surface of her new book (of which I’ve only started), but there is a very helpful self-interview question in the accompanying article. On wether or not to keep a piece of clothing Rubin says:

Sorting through curated memories nearly always conjures smiles and storytelling. It’s such a joy walk down memory lane with my clients. 

There are two problems though that are common:

1. Memorabilia is scattered.

2. Memorabilia has become utterly unruly.