Why I Refuse to Watch ‘Tidying Up’

I don’t need that kind of negativity in my life.

My spare room may or may not look just like this. Photo by JF Martin via Unsplash

Everyone is watching this show and learning about the “KonMari Method” of housecleaning and I’m not having it.

I will make an honest confession. I don’t know the first thing about the show. I may be completely full of hot air here.

What I do know is that I don’t need someone in my life reminding me how little of my crap I have together, let alone how much of it I need to throw out.

There is a lot of pressure in my life and I don’t need anymore. I work two jobs and I’m a single mom.

Merely existing is enough to make me want to rip out my hair or at the very least acquire a pretty solid drinking problem.

I feel like every day we have one more person that sets the standard that we all feel like we need to live up to. Especially as women. Of all of the articles and all of the reviews and all the tweets and all the Facebook posts that I have seen about the show, not a single one has been by a man. I think there’s a reason for that. Because men are like honey badger. They don’t give a shit.

Men inherently don’t buy a bunch of crap. Do you know why? Because not a damn soul is…