Screw Marie Kondo: Learning To Take Control Of My Stuff Stress-Free

Decluttering doesn’t have to be a nightmare

Ellen Eastwood
Wholistique
Published in
6 min readJun 29, 2022

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Image of a tired looking Asian woman with a big pile of clothes strewn all over her
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While I’ve never been a huge spender, I also didn’t de-clutter much either. I used to shove things deep in a drawer in case I ever needed them again. This meant that when I decided to down-size my belongings in January 2015, there was decades worth of stuff to go through.

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Ellen Eastwood
Wholistique

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