If I had my druthers, everyone would detox from visually saturated social media indefinitely.

We all know comparison is the thief of joy. We know that all of those staged and filtered pictures are BS.

And yet we scroll and heart and pin and like ourselves into a stupor. Our expectations of what a life looks like, let alone what a house looks like, devolve into fantasy. No sane person has a fridge that has one entire shelf dedicated just to San Pellegrino and another to fresh cut flowers. She’s too busy using her refrigerator for, you know, food.

The "fresh cut flowers and sparkling water fridge" only happens in photos in which San Pellegrino paid some absurd sum of money to manufacture that image. Or, perhaps even more disturbingly, when a typical person arranges, photographs, edits, and posts that picture as part of an elaborate performance of identity.

Either way, it’s inauthentic.

Either way, it should not be the goal of getting organized and decluttering.

Your home should look and feel like your home.

Sure, let’s make it look visually pleasing and even beautiful. But first let’s make it functional, and beneficial to the people living there. And perhaps most importantly, let’s avoid purchasing new things in the pursuit of a bland and lifeless perfection that will shift with changing trends or marketing schemes.

Life should happen in your home, and that life should be apparent, not picture perfect.