Welcome to another episode of Single Mom Musings. Because when you don’t have much of a social life, it gives you plenty of time to think – about EVERYthing.
Was I the only one who was sold the lie as a young woman and girl in the 90s and 2000s, that being low maintenance is a desirable trait to have? I swear I used to revel in the fact that it didn’t take much to keep me happy. I was not materialistic. I didn’t need a lot of things.
Side note – why is it so hard to differentiate the short side between the long side of a fitted sheet? Anyway, I digress.
I used to be really proud of the fact that “things” didn’t impress me. But I had to unpack that. Was I being not materialistic because that was truly a value that I held or because that’s what was sold to me by media society, family pressures, etc.?
Because as an adult, I’m realizing I do like some things, like having a designed space. No, I don’t like it to stunt on the gram or Tiktok or for any of those reasons, although, check out my space. 😉 But I started noticing, I would actually sigh a sigh of contentment walking into my room after I redecorated it. And I also realized, actually having a design to start with gives you a ground zero and it motivates you to clean up your space, to get it back to that. This was the only motivation I need to be less messy in my room.
Ignore that stuff on the floor.
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