Everyday Decluttering (with Rachel Rosenthal) [Encore!]

I want to start with I love one of your mantras is life can't always be neat, but it can always be organized.

I just I think I love the reality and the forgiveness in that.

And so I actually but it takes I kind of have to like always read that statement like once and then again.

And so can you just explain how can things be messy yet organized?

Yes.

So a lot of people use those same two words together.

A neat is organized.

But I disagree because I believe that organization is more of a way of life and sort of not this one time event.

So no one's perfect.

I want here to tell you that.

But you can continue to live an organized life so that everything has a place.

And it's, again, not about being perfect because the way I explain it is you have to live.

People need to live in their homes.

Things get messy.

However, when a guest comes over, when there is, you know, it's time for dinner, there's going to be a spot to put it away.

So everything can be organized and have a place and have a system.

But it's not always going to be neat in that everything is in a row or everything is color coded because I just think that's completely unrealistic for everyday living.

I don't know if that makes sense.

Yeah.

But it just makes for a simpler way of life.

And having it be organized makes easier to be then to then become neat if you want that in the end, if that works.

Yeah, I think that's great.

And actually, this is reminding me.

So just over this past weekend, I was organizing my six-year-old's books.

And I think we share our love of organizing books in rainbow color.