decluttering
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The Night Formula
Dear Conscience, My 2nd core habit, after writing to you, is that I should stay away from a phone screen at night. Might not seem like a big deal, but I spent many a night awake, scrolling on my phone, feeding my biggest fears: serial killer Wikipedia bios, FOMO-tracking of crypto markets, cases of child Continue reading
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Clear Floors
Dear Conscience, Today I avoided most of my to-do list in favor of doing one task properly – clear away all the mess covering the floors in our apartment. I opted for storing (i.e. hiding) it away, basically shifting the mess from the floors, to the closets, shelves and cupboards. I know that this is Continue reading
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Space
Dear Conscience, It is Friday, the day that I want to dedicate to the theme of the Space I inhabit. What’s up? I’ve tried to make space a first priority back when I started with this effort. It’s because I had always lived in a mass, and it’s weighed on my quality of life. I Continue reading
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Sense of Urgency About the Future
Dear Conscience, I am sitting in my living room, cleaner than it has been for a long time. Including the nooks that usually were just piles of stuff covered by a blanket, or shelves overflowing with clutter. Now, I am only talking about openly visible spaces. Open the cupboards or the drawers, and it’s mayhem Continue reading
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How a Messy Life Messes with You
Dear Conscience, Here’s the problem with me trying to unmess myself: I have messes in so many aspects of my life that as I try to focus on cleaning up one, the other sets me back again. The current example is that a partner I collaborate with is in town, and I’ll host them. But Continue reading
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There’s Something to Declutter Every Day
Dear Conscience, The circumstances are such that it will make sense once I leave to spend a month or two at my parents’ house, focusing on space won’t be so beneficial anymore. So it will make sense to move on to a new theme. But I don’t want to move on without having made at Continue reading
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Am I Finally Becoming an Imperfectionist?
Dear Conscience, Another semi-successful day in progress. I’m starting to appreciate these. A fully successful day usually is followed by three days of doom that undo and make worse any improvement achieved. I didn’t declutter (ie remove from my possession) much, and I did spend an hour on nonsense scrolling in my parked car, so Continue reading
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Space At Last
Dear Conscience, I’m writing in a short break after about 45 minutes of clearing out a huge storage dump that our bedroom has turned into. Yes, only 45 minutes, and I only have an hour and a half left at most. I was delayed though by a very important conversation with my husband, about some Continue reading
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Semi-good Days FTW
Dear Conscience, I had a slow morning, caring for my daughter, who’s finally on a mend. Then I made sure to send off some emails before I leave the house. Then I had to hide from the rain alone at my cluttered apartment instead of running errands, so I watched a show instead of doing Continue reading
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Life Happens
Dear Conscience, As you know, there was a plan (to declutter), and there was an opportunity (my daughter would spend the weekend at her grandparents). But then it all didn’t matter when life had different plans; my daughter got sick, and we spent the weekend (and more) going in and out of hospital. The important Continue reading
About Me
I got my first nickname when I was 4 years old. It was “bakitza”, which means ‘an old lady’. I’ve always been an old lady on the inside. And as I progress towards being an old lady on the outside too, I want to take control of this journey. To reach the full fledged bakitza level with a peace of mind I always associated with that life stage. I thought it would come on it’s own with age. But now I realize that I have to take control over the mess that my life currently is in order to be a thoroughly satisfied bakitza one day.
Becoming Bakitza 