Hey guys welcome back to the clutter bug organizing podcast.

Today I wanted to talk about the fact that I am like the anti Marie Condo

and how I really practice organization in a completely different way.

I did read the life-changing magic of tidying up.

I everyone was reading it and I was so excited to read this book but I have to say

that I found it really unrealistic and perhaps I'm a little biased because I am a clutter bug. I do have a lot of things and I tend to like having a lot of things.

I also have three kids who have things as well, and I really didn't find the idea of pulling

everything out and putting it in a giant pile in my living room and then going through

it and seeing what sparks joy as realistic in my really busy schedule.

The other thing is there's a lot of things that, especially when it comes to kids' belongings

that I don't find joy in but kids find joy in literally

everything I mean kids want to keep gum wrappers so when you have three little

kids this method I mean I don't know I just feel like it's it's really great to be a minimalist I wish I could be a minimalist but the Marie Condo method is really to become a minimalist.

So if that is your dream, if that's something you're, you know, aspiring to be, then that book will absolutely definitely work for you.

When I look at magazines and see perfectly white spotless empty spaces that isn't

really what I'm, I feel, you know, my home, I want my home to be like.

So my organizing style is most definitely like anti-condo. It's just, it is not like that. I'm a clutter bug and that's the truth. I like having a lot of different cameras. We collect different cameras. I like having lots of different lenses and I suppose

you could say that those things bring me joy but then there's other things I have like

can opener which does not bring me joy, or things like extra labels, craft supplies,

things that sometimes just really come in handy,

you don't want to get rid of them.

I am all for purging and all for living with less.

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