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What is my "Why?"

Today is the day, I am starting a blog to record my journey toward tidy. I have listen to The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing  written by  Marie Kondo  on Audible  and have had my husband listen too! We are ready to purge!! Now we need to decide when, he is on vacation next week so that is looking really temping (and will give me more time to re-listen to the book).  Tonight, I will be taking the horribly embarrassingly real pictures of our two bedroom house that is crammed full of forgotten items that quite frankly do not spark joy. I look around and have constantly blamed a shared laziness, busyness, and just not knowing where to start on the state of our environment. This book has challenged my defeated self narrative, I have stuff to deal with one item at a time asking simply one question, "does this spark joy?".  Before starting this blog I had to define what our new space would be like, this has been difficult for m