Why home organizing is my coronavirus coping tool
Paige Vickers
I?m finding solace in bringing order to my home The week before I had my first baby. For months while my nana slowly died of cancer. The morning after an argument with my partner. And now, facing a fast-moving pandemic. In all these times of uncertainty and distress, I?ve found solace in organizing my home.
Sometimes it?s cleaning up an overflowing junk drawer, other times it?s reordering all the books on my shelves. But whenever the world outside feels out of control, I turn inward.
Over the past few weeks, my increasingly frenzied home projects have mirrored the pace of news about the novel coronavirus. In late January, as the outbreak spread in China, I labeled and neatly stacked my medications. In February, listening to podcasts about infected patients on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, I cleaned out my pantry so it would be ready to be restocked. In early March, as state after state declared an emergency, I went into overdrive, enforcing order everywhere I looked?arranging my daughter?s clothes, purging my mismatched food storage containers, emptying the freezer of too-old food. By now, my family is holed up in the mountains practicing social distancing, after schools, restaurants, gyms, and more have been closed in my state, as well as in communities across the U.S.
My actions at home didn?t prevent COVID-19 from spreading, but I?ve learned, as a type-A planner, that I feel better when things are in order.
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