There is a vast difference between tidy and clean... Clean I am, Tidy I am not. Living is not very tidy...and there is such beauty in that untidy-ness! Thank you so much for sharing!
Isn´t is so interesting, how we read or watch other people being themselves, and a tiny part in us wants to be just like that. I read your post, and so much in it resonates within. I wish, I could be planting, and baking bread, and make sauerkraut, but alas, I am less of a maker, and more of a being-with-people (namely my children), and writer and doodler, and not-get-anything-doner. So thank you for sharing your piece and inspire me and let me dream about a different life while at the same time be filled with gratitude for my own!
Oh Kat, I am learning to quilt as well, and we are also LWA members, so I thought I'd mention those two things just before quietly dropping in that I also share your chaos!
When pseudo minimalist tendencies take hold, I watch Benita Larsson on YouTube and vow to paint everything white or throw it out tomorrow, but when tomorrow comes I can see a potential craft in every last carefully collected bit of junk!
I could have written this first part. I just need a diary to be more organised, to get rid of my lovely things to be less cluttered and I need another minimalism podcast. But no. The call is coming from inside the house. It’s me. And I love me for it even though I beat myself up periodically for it.
For me, there are so many more interesting and worthwhile things to do than clean or tidy. But I am keen we purge stuff as we have too many THINGS - many more than we need. This year ive set us a target to reduce the Stuff by half. In every room. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to put anything away or do any more cleaning. I think there’s a real difference between having less stuff / doing interesting making versus the types of evangelical shiny cleaning we see on Instagram. There might be a new eco minimalism where we use the things thoughtfully - bottling and drying but we don’t necessarily ascribe to the urban view of ‘minimalism’ ?
Ah! Your kitchen could just as well be mine... I vacillate between tidy and disaster, with evidence of living strewn everywhere. Thanks for sharing.
It’s always nice to know we aren’t alone!!!
There is a vast difference between tidy and clean... Clean I am, Tidy I am not. Living is not very tidy...and there is such beauty in that untidy-ness! Thank you so much for sharing!
Isn´t is so interesting, how we read or watch other people being themselves, and a tiny part in us wants to be just like that. I read your post, and so much in it resonates within. I wish, I could be planting, and baking bread, and make sauerkraut, but alas, I am less of a maker, and more of a being-with-people (namely my children), and writer and doodler, and not-get-anything-doner. So thank you for sharing your piece and inspire me and let me dream about a different life while at the same time be filled with gratitude for my own!
Oh Kat, I am learning to quilt as well, and we are also LWA members, so I thought I'd mention those two things just before quietly dropping in that I also share your chaos!
When pseudo minimalist tendencies take hold, I watch Benita Larsson on YouTube and vow to paint everything white or throw it out tomorrow, but when tomorrow comes I can see a potential craft in every last carefully collected bit of junk!
I could have written this first part. I just need a diary to be more organised, to get rid of my lovely things to be less cluttered and I need another minimalism podcast. But no. The call is coming from inside the house. It’s me. And I love me for it even though I beat myself up periodically for it.
For me, there are so many more interesting and worthwhile things to do than clean or tidy. But I am keen we purge stuff as we have too many THINGS - many more than we need. This year ive set us a target to reduce the Stuff by half. In every room. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to put anything away or do any more cleaning. I think there’s a real difference between having less stuff / doing interesting making versus the types of evangelical shiny cleaning we see on Instagram. There might be a new eco minimalism where we use the things thoughtfully - bottling and drying but we don’t necessarily ascribe to the urban view of ‘minimalism’ ?