Anglin: COVID has forced us to de-clutter
Jan. 23, 2021
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Women in houston in 2019 clear out some junk following Marie Kondo’s lead. The de-cluttering phase has taken off in the pandemic with so many of us stuck at home.Brett Coomer /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Shelves filled with books are much harder to manage than a Kindle Fire. De-clutter!File photoShow MoreShow Less
One of the lesser wake-up calls of the COVID-19 pandemic happened when Americans, forced to work from home with nowhere to go, spent some time with their stuff.
Stuff that clutters their homes, chokes garages and overwhelms storage units. Stuff that junks up the shelves behind us while we Zoom through the workday. As people turned spare bedrooms into home offices and remote classrooms, the big COVID-19 cleanup of 2020 became a thing; people struggled to manage the world inside since nobody could control what was threatening outside.