Pretty much every life coach and happiness guru out there agrees on one thing; to be happy and productive you can’t have too much extra crap lying around! NYC life coach Marie Forleo video blogged about it last week and the New York Times got on the bandwagon by doing a piece this Sunday on Barbara Reich. For $450 Babs will come to your house and fill FOUR trash bags with stuff you simply couldn’t part with on your own. Well, I can fill my own trash bags thank-you-very-much, but as I got my clutter colonic going Barbara’s slogan “Clutter equals stress and stress equals clutter” played on loop throughout my head.

So far I have filled one donation bag and one “dump it” bag and the energizing effect is miraculous. I don’t think I will miss a thing. Especially since we kept a little Christmas tree magic by wrapping a pipe with thick rope and lights:)

After the clutter colonic we had a crisp white stage for photographing my amazing, new, multi-purpose knit. I love that I can slip it over my shoulders like a shrug but it also does duty as an infinity scarf and apparently a knit skirt as well.