Teri asked Eve O. Schaub:

I just finished reading Year of No Clutter. How's the room looking now? Has the process and project been sustainable?

Eve O. Schaub Hi Teri! So the non-Marie Kondo-friendly honest answer is that I've backslid a bit and I'm not very happy about it- the room now is still usable, but wildly cluttered, so really precisely right in between where I started in the memoir and where I finished.

I find that the issue of stuff is a battle I will always be fighting on one level or another, although whenever I am really struggling I revisit some of the lessons I uncovered during that year — its okay to make mistakes, being circumspect about what comes in the house in the first place, keeping everything is keeping nothing (because it is ultimately counter productive and destructive)— and it helps a lot. Thanks for this great question- the struggle is REAL!

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