I have worked with children and they are dream clients! They don’t own much because they haven’t lived long enough to acquire a significant amount of belongings. Often kids are good at discerning between what they love what they don’t, so they are innately good at checking for joy. We can usually tidy all categories in one session because of these reasons.

Hearing Marie Kondo’s name almost immediately conjures up images of her notorious folding technique. Generally clients are either enthusiastic or put off by the suggestion of taking time to fold things a certain way. Although her method intrigued me, I also doubted it would be something I could fully embrace.

I read an interesting article describing how tumbleweeds (Russian Thistle, Salsola tragus) have been known to pile up in giant heaps around people’s homes in the arid west. They get extremely intertwined resulting in helpless homeowners being trapped inside with no way to exit. The blockade of tumbleweeds creates a thick wall of, as the author describes as “twisted balls of dead foliage.” Homeowners must wear special gloves and use tools to cut and carve their way out to freedom.