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@sophiabush : 1/2 A few months ago I had the pleasure of doing an overhaul of my house with the amazing people at @lifeinjeneral. I’d been slowly feeling suffocated by stuff. Things. Tchotchkes. Side tables. For 15 years I’d lived in two states, and when I got everything home under one roof, rather than pair it all down my inner Sentimental Sally took over and I crammed memories and books and dish ware and papers — seriously what is with all the paperwork!? I ask that question of LIFE itself! — into every available space. And then there was no space to breathe. Piles of organized chaos would pop up near the washer and dryer, or on the corner of the couch in the living room. Occasionally there would be suitcases everywhere because “I travel so much for work!” They’d come and go, sure, but the piles remained. The garage was utter insanity, but because I never had to look at it I never really did. I just stopped going in there. I couldn’t figure out why I was SO good at helping other people move, organize, and edit, and yet I couldn’t see my own stuff clearly. I could clear out a friend’s home in a weekend, but couldn’t see the forest for the trees of my own stuff. Marie Kondo says you can do it yourself. Well. I threw that book away — jk, jk I gave it to someone who wanted it and I still love her and her philosophy — for me it was too hard. Too confusing. Everything meant something! I needed a professional. Otherwise I was gonna need a professional in a white coat to lock me up pretty soon. • And that’s when I met Jen from @lifeinjeneral. The bun that is @publiclivessecretrecipes introduced us. Jen came over and I could see her brain working some invisible organizational geometry as she looked in my closet, in the garage, at my desk space, and at just about everything else. “Hmm,” she’d utter, over and over again, until eventually she said “We could do some of this better.” She was beyond kind about it. I didn’t feel overwhelmed anymore, I felt excited. And the next day the angel