Organization
Have you ever felt like things are not in the right place? Not even just a mess but that the place that you have stuff isn’t right? Today I felt this way once my cute little coffee pot came in today. Moving into my new place I still am constantly trying to figure out how the space works. Today I arranged everything to fit in one space to create a coffee tea bar for myself. I love coffee and have recently become more obsessed with tea. Because of this I wanted to have counter space and also create a section of my kitchen designated to my favorite things! And it worked out so well. It actually feels like it created more flow to the kitchen and took away the clutter. The one thing I hate!!
Clutter gets to me a lot. I see a mess and I feel paralyzed sometimes from it. I get frustrated by it because everything has a spot to be in and when things aren’t right or organized in a specific way I feel a slight bit of defeat. Maybe it’s OCD or maybe it’s just how I am but clutter gives me anxiety, and too much stuff in one spot gives me anxiety as well. I like openness and flow and for there to be some level of organization.
It could be the fact that everyone in my family is a hoarder. My dad is a hoarder but has gotten way better as of recently, my mom collects way to much the last time I was at her house. My grandma who passed had way to much and there was no organization to the madness. Then there is my grandma who is probably the most organized hoarder of them all. In her house there isn’t a spot that isn’t filled on the wall, and even though it’s chaos there is a level of organization in the house. There is a flow to it but it’s still to a level I couldn’t be at. Even one of my friends has a lot of stuff in her place but it’s organized in a way to bring out her eclectic personality, but for me it’s to much.
Everyone I know has a lot of stuff, to the point I wonder why? Why do we own stuff we won’t utilize? I had 2- 3ds and I asked myself why? The answer was because of sentiment, worth, and loss. And so I gave my little brother one of them for Christmas, the one worth more, and a bunch of games I had. Getting rid of the extra felt good and I was able to make someone else happy in the process. If we all just started helping each other with our extra stuff then we would 1 solve our organization problem, and 2 we would help those who could use it or need it. This would spread more love, more abundance, instead of us all selfishly hoarding things for ourselves.
The other night I went to the grocery store and when I was leaving there was a homeless man at the end of the road. I had no change and felt awful. There he was this human being begging for anything. I wanted to cry because I thought of everything I had in my life and was humbled by it. “He belongs to someone,” I said to my boyfriend. He was someone’s son, maybe brother, maybe cousin, and here he is out here. This awareness has really started tugging hard at me, especially recently, and so I drove by. I thought about him a lot and hoped he had a place to sleep. I prayed for him in hopes he would find a way out of this reality he has created for himself. But the stuff we own, that extra blanket, that extra can of food, the storage bin, whatever it is could go to help someone get off the street, maybe help them furnish their own place.
That is why organization is so important. If you have no place for something then decide to donate it or give it to someone. That kindness ripples out, and after all will you remember having it in a year? Or will the act of helping someone stick with you far longer?
If you need help getting organized I highly recommend you read the book Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. It’s funny prior to reading her book every year I go through my clothes to figure out what is no longer serving my joy and happiness. I had been doing this since my first break up over 10 years ago. This also goes for other things in my life, furniture, chachkis, objects, etc. Check out the book and drop a line, let me know your thoughts! And if you have any book recommendations leave them in the comment section! I love to read.
Today was a 8.