Open Tabs 008: I'm so back, baby. Or maybe I'm finally where I've been trying to get for years.

I’m so back, baby. Or maybe I’m finally where I’ve been trying to get for years.

The other day I was watching YouTube videos and realized I was bored. Genuinely, luxuriously bored. And instead of immediately filling it with something I just sat there. As I looked around my home, I started to think about all the things I do that feel like chores or I find boring and I thought: Why isn't any of that gorgeous? It could be.

Fancy to me means editing pretty significantly. I've been trying to get rid of at least one useless thing a day until everything around me is in line with my higher self.

Fancy is mostly subtraction. And then a very specific addition.

Anyway, leave it to me to find a way to get rid of one thing only to find 30 more we need.

xx Yours Truly,
Complex and Contradictory
Mari Condo

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