The things that don’t spark joy

Reyna Lim | Wednesday, September 28, 2022

We’ve all seen Marie Kondo and her organization wizardry on Netflix, preaching her secret key to not being a hot mess: if the object doesn’t “spark joy,” throw it away. I am a hot (arguable) mess, and I hold onto things that spark sadness, frustration, nostalgia and humiliation.  For years, I’ve obsessively preserved souvenirs from