Working mostly with clients in and around DC, I unearth a lot of election newspapers and paraphernalia. Ooo, it's abundant in this town! I think I once even found a front page from Nixon's impeachment. Wish I had snapped a pic.

We've all heard people say "Just act like you're moving" in order to inspire a more ruthless decluttering episode. Though I like that frame of mind, it's hard to fake unless you have a real move date on the calendar. I've seen people unleash Herculean strength when faced with a move, letting go of unthinkable items with unthinkable speed. All have survived and all have been better for it!

To every thing there is a season.

One could argue that January is the best time of the year to purge because “out with the old, in with the new.” Or, maybe Spring cleaning gets you going.

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?