Stage 4: Despair
I sat cross-legged on the floor of my cramped bathroom, the smell of the supposedly scent-free trash bag that housed several pounds worth of products overwhelming me. The products I had decided to keep were scattered around me. And hundreds of products were still awaiting their judgment. It was, in a word, a hellscape.
There was still so much to do, and the act of throwing things out is very emotional (the fact that I had Taylor Swift blasting in the background probably didn't help matters much).
Maybe I'll just put a few things away, I thought. Seems logical, right? Wrong, according to Kondo.
"Start by discarding, all at once, intensely and completely," she says. This means no organizing as you go. You have to get through the discard portion before you can even think about where you're going to put away your pared-down collection of nail polishes, so you don't get distracted and slip back into bad habits later on.
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