Ava Rose
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Marie Kondo and My Tee-Shirts
In a few months, I will be leaving for college, with only a few dollars in my bank account, a wardrobe solely consisting of hand-me-downs with torn seams, and a dirty room imploding under layers of dust and obscure pillow decorations. To say the least, I was not in a state of order for this big move. The clutter over my dresser and the dress-shirts that have slumped over my lampshades have become more of a nuisance rather than a winter decoration. It took a few days into February, and an 18th birthday that launched me into adulthood, until I decided to deal with this accumulation of clothing, thrifted nic nacks, or pieces of plastic trash sprinkled over the carpet. The solution? The icon Marie Kondo herself and her well-known cleaning methods, but with a twist. The twist in question was an attempt to organize with the “reduce, reuse, recycle” mantra in mind. Those cartoons I’ve watched as a kid, with aluminum cans singing to this same mantra, stuck with me throughout the years and have imprinted me with an environmental moral code. So when I decluttered my room (the first and final of my rooms to get this treatment of cleaning), it seemed irresponsible to send the accumulating pile mentally labeled as “Goodwill” off to a thrift store where the items will most likely end up in a landfill instead. That is where the “reduce, reuse, recycle” mantra came to mind.
By Ava Rose5 years ago in Motivation
