'After one, two, and then three days of not making the beds with militaristic precision, I was stunned to find... our world kept turning? We all lived.' Writer Michelle Ruiz reacts to the life-changing magic of not tidying up.
before the Marie Kondo industrial complex took hold; her de facto standard of neatness is The Container Store. She makes every bed, every morning. Some people strive for inbox zero; my mom lives in pursuit of empty laundry hampers, empty wastebaskets, the satisfying slide of an empty dishwasher rack. The accumulation of lint in the dryer irks her to her core. Each pair of her socks is rolled into a ball and nestled into a honeycomb-shaped drawer insert.
Every day, I’d video chat with my friends/long-distance pandemic support group while I Cinderella-ed—a verb inspired by the princess’s rigorous morning routine. Restoring order from squalor felt like a stab at inner peace. Still, I resented my reflexive need to do it and the way it zapped my energy—both physical and creative.
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