Tidying Up with Marie Kondo (2019) s01e04 Episode Script

1 - Ah! - She looks excited! I'm so excited because I love mess.
It's a never ending battle to fight the clutter.
Oh! I want things to be more simple.
I don't know how to fix it.
With the baby coming, it's gonna be more chaos.
Oh, my God! We have too much stuff! Hello, I'm Marie Kondo.
My mission is to spark joy in the world through cleaning.
Ching! Best-selling author and world-renowned tidying expert.
Marie Kondo is dedicated to inspiring the world to choose joy with the KonMari Method.
A feature of the KonMari Method is that you clean by item and not by location.
And we will always clean using the same categories.
First, is clothing.
I can't reach.
Next, is books.
Giving them a little shake and wake them up.
Then, paper.
I can't do the papers.
The largest category is komono.
Komono is kitchen, bathroom, and garage.
Everything miscellaneous.
Finally, sentimental items.
It's kinda hard to let it go, 'cause I really like this one.
This is kinda hard.
I don't want to just, you know, dump it.
But I want to be thoughtful about it.
From the moment she set foot in our house, she had this presence to her.
She wants to see this place turned around.
Marie brought a whole bunch of joy upon our home.
This is amazing.
You're so cute! I love you! You're so cute.
I love you, too.
These are, like, happy, happy tears.
Thank you for what you've brought to our home, really.
I am Margie Hodges, Margaret when my mom is mad at me.
I live in Culver City, California.
My home has a lot of personal effects, it has a lot of memories, it has a lot of photographs, um, mementos from traveling, you know, I just like a place that just anybody can come in, and feel like they're at home.
I had two little toddlers when we moved into this particular house, and then had another child afterwards, so, yeah, almost 30 years in, in this house.
So, my salt and pepper's here, cumin, put a little coriander, whatever.
Onions are, like Lu, a little, a little cilantro.
I thought you didn't even like cilantro.
- It's okay.
- It'll shrink down.
- Okay.
- Hello.
- Hey, Jake man, how was school? - Good.
What's up? - Hi.
- Hi.
We're gonna make you a healthy dinner.
- You're not used that that, huh? - Do you wanna put some of this in? Yeah, that's Leave that.
- That one's open, I think it's fine.
- The secret ingredient.
Just shake it up so it's I do have a lot of stuff, guys.
You never know what kid's gonna come over to borrow something.
Already.
Oh, I found some stuff.
Let me show you.
I wanted to show you some pictures I found.
I'm proud of my home.
You know, it saw us through some good times and then it saw us through some really dark times towards the end, when my husband got sick.
It changed just everything.
I wish you guys could meet my husband.
He's Life of the party, larger than life, physically, and just his personality.
He just was the guy everybody flocked to.
And he took good care of me and he taught us all a lot about life, about what matters in life, and, you know, how to enjoy enjoy yourself.
Was this his stuff or? This is his stuff.
These are Some of the stuff is stuff we gave him.
- Oh, oh.
- Look what I found! Oh, my God.
What? I can't Who's that? - Ah, jeez.
- You guys are adorable.
Now my husband's gone, I've got an empty house full of stuff.
Rick has monumental amount of stuff that has accumulated from prior business to present business to inventions.
Any kind of creative ideas he might have had.
It's so personal to him.
I'm very strong-willed and have good ideas, but I don't know that I have everything it takes, you know, er, or just the fortitude it takes to get rid of his belongings.
But I'm alone now.
I lost my husband, my kids all have moved out, so, this is the perfect time for me to make room for, you know, whatever is next.
So, um, when Marie comes, she's gonna kinda just get me started, but she's not gonna be here, this is gonna be my full-time job, just cleaning my house.
Well, good.
It's a little daunting when you see how much stuff we've accumulated.
I hope that Marie can help find the same calmness and coziness that I like in my house, but maybe not with all these things everywhere.
Mom, are you ready to eat? I'll sit here.
You sit at the head, Mom.
Oh, yeah, that's her chair.
It's been so long since a family dinner.
Well, it's kinda Yeah.
It is kinda weird 'cause we're missing several, so - Okay, guys.
- Good luck with your new adventure.
Cheers to new beginnings.
Starting fresh.
Mmm, do I have your support, guys? I-I-I hope you know how much this means to me.
Mm-hmm.
You know, it's a lot of It's a lot of life in this house, and I don't wanna just, you know, dump it.
- Yeah.
- I wanna to be thoughtful about it and I don't want to get rid of important things or things that you wish Oh, man, we shouldn't have got rid of, so kinda, like, I need you to speak up and kinda be here as I go through this.
- It's kind of emotional.
- Yeah.
I've been so strong, and it's, like, this is really real now.
It's been a rough year, but this is gonna be a good cleansing.
Okay, guys, so Lu, you do it.
Dear Lord, thank you for this meal and that we can all be together and please watch over us, and we're here for my mom on this next chapter and journey in her life.
In Jesus' name, amen.
- Amen.
- Amen.
By tidying, you can sometimes ease the pain of the past.
Or even start thinking about your future in a more positive way.
Once we are done, I have every faith that Margie's life will spark with even more joy.
This house is so cute.
This is the house, right? - Hi! - Hello, Marie.
Hello, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Thank you for coming all the way to my house.
Thank you for inviting me.
- I'm so excited for you to be here.
- Yeah.
So beautiful.
- Thank you.
You wanna ride my pony? - Yeah, yeah.
Can I ride? Wow.
Only because she's little.
- This is just decoration? - Yeah, decoration.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
Oh, it's so cute.
Yeah.
It's the first time I've seen that.
Wow.
I've got lots of fun things in my house, lots of special things.
- Wow.
- Yeah, so I'm so happy to be here, so I'd love it if you could give me a tour.
- Sure.
Not as happy as I am to have you.
- Yeah.
So come on in.
I can take you back into the, the abandoned bedrooms from my children.
That, That is the nervous cat.
- I have two, two cats.
- Two cats, okay.
- The other one is okay, this one, nervous.
- Nervous, okay.
I'm sorry.
- So - Yeah.
My children are big and gone, but we have lots of stuff left.
- So - How many children? - I have three.
- Three, yeah.
And we keep talking about, "We need to do this," and, "I'm too busy, Mom," so, for now, we just put it in here, and close the door.
This is the dining room.
Yeah, yeah.
It looks so tidy.
My house is clean, it's just every drawer, every closet is packed.
- Oh, what this? How this? - Well It's a drawer? This is a catchall.
Anything you don't know where to put, you put it in here.
Ah, okay.
She looks excited.
Yeah, yeah.
I am so excited because I like tidying and I love mess.
Oh.
Well, you came to the right house.
Yeah.
And this is my kitchen, - I live here alone.
- Yeah.
Look at all my stuff.
More stuff! Oh! I see.
My husband loved condiments and spices and sauces.
And this is what my husband said to me every morning.
He called me Mag and he would always say, "Good coffee, Mag!" Okay, what do you wanna come see? - Bedroom number two? - Yes.
I think this is Lucy's stuff.
From when she was little.
- Yeah.
- From school.
And then, also I have up here.
- I haven't been up there in many years.
- Yeah.
- So, I have a very big bedroom.
- Yeah.
This is all my husband's and then this is all mine.
His things are still in the drawers and then me.
Oh Too much stuff.
What about these shelves here? - All kinds All kinds of things.
-Clothes, too? - No, purses.
- Ah, purse.
Sometimes I put I buy little things, like gifts, and I just stick it up here.
More candy.
- Candy.
- Yeah, but I don't go up here too much.
- Ah.
- This is where he had all his pants, so I have them, I have them, um, down there.
Yeah, yeah.
There's the, the jeans.
- Yeah, yeah.
- See, see how big? The pants are so big.
 This is so many so many pairs.
Yeah.
And then we spend a lot of time This is our family room.
Oh, wow.
- So cool.
- Yeah.
There's a very good energy.
This is all of your books? - Or the - I have more.
- Some of them.
- Yeah, some of them.
Some are my husband's.
My husband saved everything.
So, when did your husband pass away? - Nine months ago.
- Nine months ago.
- Last summer, last June.
- Yeah.
I have to make room going forward.
- I can't just only live in the past.
- Yeah.
So, yes, I think you will find that this opportunity for us to work together is really a time for you to reflect upon your life and start tidying and organizing your life.
- I want to keep lots of memories still.
- Yeah, yeah.
But I would like to value how you feel about your past and your memories.
Of course.
Thank you, thank you.
Well, I'm thanking you for sitting down and not running out the front door going, "Ah! This is too much!" So, this is where we begin, where we start our tidying process.
I'm ready.
I have really kind of stated to everybody, this year, for me, is my year to tidy up my whole life.
So, I've been through an awful lot and I'm I've learned a lot, I'm amazed how strong I have been through it all, and I, I feel like I've got the energy and the desire to really prepare for what's to come next, whatever that might be.
I feel so fortunate to be able to go on this journey with you.
Thank you.
That makes me That makes me very happy.
After you finish tidying, do you have an image of what kind of life you would like to lead? Yeah, I-I would like to travel again, that's really one of the things on my list, is to travel, 'cause I, I have relatives in fun places around the world.
Also, I would like to have a spare room devoted as a craft room or, you know, a place for me just to have all my supplies, and in one room, in one spot, organized neatly.
So, those images are very, very important, but the most important step is to have an image of your ideal lifestyle that you want to lead once you've finished tidying.
Clearer the image, the better.
Okay.
Before we start tidying I would like to greet your house.
Okay.
How do you do that? Er, don't worry about me.
- This is just for her.
- Oh, it's it's her - Yeah, yeah.
- Okay.
I find the best place to Okay.
Ah, this is okay.
Thank you so much.
I will tell you, the feeling in this house is spectacular.
So, what I'd like for you to remember as you go through this process is that you're not alone, the house itself and all your belongings are there to support you and are with you.
Yes, they are.
Let's start tidying.
All of your clothes and put them in a pile on your bed.
Take out all of your clothes and make a mountain on your bed.
Okay.
This is hard to do.
Yeah.
Is this yours or? - That's Rick's.
- Okay.
- Just yours this time.
- Yeah.
- This end we leave for now.
- Yeah.
And this I always recommend that clients wait to tidy belongings of a loved one until the end.
The reason is because tidying those items is very difficult.
So there is a high chance that it will stall the tidying process.
Gonna make a mountain.
Thank you.
It looks different when you see it thrown on your bed like that.
I know.
- Oh, this is mortifying.
- Yeah.
Oh, my God.
It's gonna be up to the ceiling, I have a feeling.
Oh.
- Wait, you need to - Yeah! - That was a workout, look at this.
- Yes.
Look at it, it's just So, this is the start.
Hold each item one by one and choose item that spark a joy for you.
Um I just Oh, my God! That's all I keep saying.
So, you'll be able to be more attuned to what sparks joy for you if you start with something that you obviously like and you wear all the time, you're just 100% sure it sparks joy for you.
My two robes, my three robes.
These couple of things I wear a lot.
This has sparked joy for you.
- Yeah, those are my cozies.
- Okay.
This one, I-I have had this since I was nursing babies.
My youngest is almost 26.
But it's okay, I can say goodbye.
If you are letting go of an item that you have a lot of memories of, that's when you want to say thank you from your heart.
I know, thank you, thank you.
Lots of I can't believe how long this lasted, so many years.
- But - Yes.
this is this chapter is behind me.
- Yeah.
- So, thank you.
I'm just, um feeling a little bit like, "Wow, this is gonna take me a long time.
" I would love to be doing it with Rick, I mean, there's really nobody else I could choose to do this with.
He was so capable of so many things, and now it's kind of like smacking me in the face with, "Okay, he's not here.
What are you gonna do now?" How do you feel now? It was more than I thought it was gonna be.
- First of all the amount of stuff.
- Yeah.
But it was easier than I thought in the sense I can do without that, you know? I've-I've been through some serious battles lately, so, making decisions about clothes is very, um Well, quite a bit easier than I thought.
Yeah, I was surprised how smoothly you made the selection, so I think it's going very well.
Thank you so much.
- Can I give you a hug? - Yeah.
Thank you, thank you so much.
My life has transformed just completely, um, in the last year.
You know, when you choose a person for 40 years, you know, you want to be with that person, and it's a big void in the house and in my life, and I honestly have never lived alone.
Oh, my God.
I do hope that this will allow me to have, um, some thoughts about what can I do, what do I want to do, the things that I haven't actually allowed myself to think.
I want to be able to fantasize about how do I wanna decorate the bedroom, for example.
Or how would I redo this and I have a hard time making decisions.
But, um, it's all on me now, I don't have to run it by anybody.
And that's an experience, I guess, I have never had before, where it's just solely me making my decisions.
- Hi! - Good morning! - Good morning.
Nice to see you.
- Hello.
Hello.
- Welcome back.
- Yeah.
- Come on in.
Hi, lida.
- Good to see you again.
- Thank you.
- Welcome, welcome.
Yeah.
Has it been a week? You want to come see what I've been up to? Yeah.
This is what I'm getting rid of.
Look at all those bags.
Those are all gonna go, yeah.
- And all these purses.
- Yeah.
I don't even know where some of these purses are from, I don't remember them, they've been up there so long in my closet.
What I'm wondering is, what do I do now? This is all I am keeping from my purses.
Do I need to get a container to put them into, maybe? - If you have a container - A basket? or basket, that would be great.
Many people feel that there isn't enough space to store bags.
So I suggest the "Bag in Bag" Method.
Okay, so I just have to basically get started on getting Rick's items out of the drawers, so that I have more room to finish putting my things away, I suppose.
So, what's important for you to do right now at this stage is to really just focus on yourself.
You can set aside Rick's clothes for now, we'll come back to that.
- Okay.
- We'll take the steps to do that.
I don't want to jump ahead of the process.
I I'm learning, so, okay.
I do associate things with memories for sure.
It's hard to stay on focus 'cause I've got Rick's items still to be dealt with.
I don't want to constantly be thinking about that every time I get dressed in the morning.
I'm definitely anxious, but I have to trust Marie's process.
- Okay.
- The next on your step is books.
Okay.
With books, we follow the exact same process as clothes.
We will be gathering all the books in the house, and going through them one by one.
Ooh! I will literally just stand up here and climb it.
Okay.
- This is all built in.
- Ah, built in.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
I think these are, um, Rick's cowboy books.
When we used to go on vacation, he'd always read an easy cowboy book.
So, do you like to travel? Yeah, I used to work for the airlines, so we did a fair amount of traveling.
Yeah, yeah.
That's a keeper.
How do you feel looking at all these All the books? I feel like I'm in somebody else's library, 'cause I don't know what a lot of this stuff is.
So So, before I start - Gotta wake 'em up? - Exactly.
- Wake up the piles.
- Before I start tidying books, I like to wake them up a little bit.
It's a little easier to sort through.
Um, okay How do I decide what I want to keep? It's perfectly natural to feel anxious.
Just start with something easy, you obviously don't want.
Okay.
But I'm-I'm wrestling with not feeling finished up there.
I feel like I'm jumping into something else and I'm not done.
I was sort of prepared to pull all of Rick's things out.
Yeah, yeah.
I I mean, it's not gonna be the easiest thing, but I'm tough and I'm I'm not gonna be tough now.
But I really think I was mentally preparing for that.
So, I I sort of feel like I wanna kind of finish before I jump into the next thing.
I understand.
Let's shift the rules for you, Margie.
That-That-That I think that would make me feel comfortable.
I'm so happy that I was able to understand you a little bit better.
You know, I am here to help you, so whenever you need help or you're stuck, call on me and I'll come right over.
Thank you.
Normally when we work on sentimental items too quickly, we become stuck, because our ability to determine what sparks joy has not been sufficiently honed yet.
But this was a very special case, so I allowed Margie to work on some sentimental items first.
I offered to help Margie tidy Rick's clothing with her, but she expressed her wishes to tidy his clothes alone, so I trusted her to do that on her own.
Okay.
Thank you again.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Goodbye, see you soon.
- Enjoy the beautiful day.
Okay, bye.
This is kinda hard.
You know, I looked at those shirts and I thought of all the hopes and dreams he had while he you know, was in his Hawaiian shirt phase, and then it went into the cowboy phase.
And, you know, it's just kind of a real jolt to see all this life, you know, that we've lived, and the dreams that he had and, you know, they are now in a pile on the floor, and my closet is empty.
And that, that was a very big jolt for me today.
It was It was a difficult process for me, I More so than I expected.
And seemingly kind of final.
I've been so good throughout this and I've been looking at it so long and just wanting it to go away, but I guess it's just that final final chunk of you know, what's so visibly him.
Evidently, there's lots of him in the house and I've got all his papers and belongings otherwise, but, you know, the clothes are a very physical thing.
His-His presence was so big, his clothes are so big, his shoes are so big, and it's just very noticeable he's not there.
Okay.
Ah.
- Hi.
- Morning.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm Margie.
- I have a big donation for you.
- Margie? Thank you.
We love it! - It's amazing what I'm getting rid of.
- Okay.
Clothing? Oh, you've got a lot of things.
- I do, do you have room? - Perfect, yes.
Absolutely.
I did it.
That truck was packed, and, um, a lot of life, a lot of memories and You know, and my head is full of 40 years of memories.
So, I have that, no one can take that.
It's gonna feel good when I drive off, I'm just a lot-a lot, a lot! Getting to this point was a lot of work, it was a lot of memories, it was a lot of emotions, and I want to only remember the good.
- Hi, hi, hi.
How was your weekend? - Hey.
Good.
I want to see the closet now.
- Oh, You haven't seen it.
Okay.
- No.
- Whoa, that's creepy.
- Isn't it? Hello! - Aww.
That's sad.
- I know.
I know, it's it's really impactful when you see - Yeah.
- all his stuff out of here.
I-I kept one long flanneland his jacket and I still have some of his boots.
I finally am feeling really different.
I feel proud of myself, you know? I-I-I always told Rick, "You're making me lazy," because he does things so well, and does so much that I don't have to.
Not that I couldn't, but I never had to.
And now I enjoy that I know I can if I need to.
- Hi, hello.
- Hello! Welcome back, girls! Hi.
Oh, my God! You look so beautiful! Thank you, thank you.
It's like, you know, the weather change.
Yeah, summer.
Yeah.
So how's everything? Good.
Well, come on in.
The next thing I am thinking about having you tackle is the room that used to be your kid's room.
Okay, so this room It seems like it's a little more tidy than the last time I was in here.
Did you go through them all? Well, I-I have been taking things and adding things and Yeah.
I Maybe I was trying to group things, too, maybe a little bit.
Um, just dealing with upstairs was very emotional for me, more difficult than I was expecting, to deal with Rick's stuff.
Regarding the tidying process, I understand that you've overcome a very major step.
I'm very proud of Margie for her accomplishments.
I felt very deeply what a significant presence Rick was in Margie's life.
I also felt that she's now ready to continue tidying, so I would like to continue the lesson with her.
Okay, so we're gonna start looking at miscellaneous items in this room.
- One by one.
- Okay.
The things that you want to keep, like the scrapbooks, the craft equipment, all those you want to keep, keep them confidently.
Okay.
Alright.
This is a treasure hunt in here, girls.
- Do you want these? - No, no.
I don't know what they are.
You guys have first dibs on any of my fabulous junk.
Well, for $1.
89 instead of $19.
- Ah! - That's where I get myself in trouble.
I'm ready to run away from home! This is the worst I've experienced so far.
I'm a closet stasher.
I'm fessing up.
The secret is out and I'm owning it and I don't want to feel like this anymore! - Oh, God.
How do I know? - Yes, you will.
Or do I get rid of it now, and if I need it again, I go spend 99 cents and buy a new one? Well I don't know, you guys.
Help me out, help me out, I don't know.
So, if you feel overwhelmed, just take a moment to breath in and out.
I know, the decision making is very mental and it makes you weary.
Okay.
So, if you're unsure, let's keep it for now.
It was a good feeling to know that Rick's clothes is a closed book now and I can move forward with this process, but, um, I realized soon enough that I have so much to do, and to have it all on me is just Aah! I felt like, "Wow.
" It's overwhelming.
There's so much to deal with and so many decisions and I don't know how I'll get it done.
I really don't.
I gotta figure out a lot of stuff.
Uh, and there's so, so many.
So, I think going forward, Margie, your challenge will be just tackling each item one by one, calmly, and you are an expert already at identifying what sparks joy for you and what doesn't.
You've already done that so many times.
You've come so far and there's so much storage space in this house, so don't try to focus on what you need to eliminate.
You know, focus on what you wanna keep and how you want to store them.
- That should be your focus.
- Okay.
I have a lot of work to do, but I've gotta try things on my own that I've never done before.
I guess that's what this is all about.
You know, preparing myself for my next chapter.
It stresses me that there's just so much.
But I am sucking it up, I'm gonna be tough and get it done.
- Thanks for all your help.
- Thank you! Okay, you guys.
- I'll see you soon.
- Safe travels.
Thank you.
Okay, empty shelves.
And I still have some more spices to go, in addition to all of this that I already pulled out.
A lot of the stuff that we had here was for Rick's kind of cooking, so, I am going to figure out what sparks joy in my life at this moment going forward, and what kind of cooking am I gonna be doing.
Woo! Okay, this is a lot of stuff, I've gotta go get a basket.
Who knows what's in my chemical closet? This is a couple of years old.
I'm surprisingly feeling perky today 'cause I've had a grueling week, I have been at it, cleaning and sorting and making decisions.
Um, and maybe it's just because I see such progress, finally.
Oh, here's some towels I haven't seen in a decade.
Yeah, I'm getting the hang of it, that's true.
Am I doing up top or down below? Yes, please.
- Which one? - All, all of it.
I'm enjoying just not answering to anybody and not having to consult.
That's kind of exciting.
I'm looking at my house with fresh eyes.
So, I have a lot of photographs.
I need some help.
Absolutely, I'd be delighted to give you a lesson on photographs today.
- Okay.
Okay.
- Yes.
So, I have so many photographs of 4th of July.
Hmm.
I have to look carefully, like, how old were my kids, you know, to try to find out the year.
These are all 4th of July.
So, there are two ways to do this and you can use both ways.
You can of course categorize by year, but you can also categorize by events.
I did the same thing when I was sorting though my photos.
Okay, that's probably a lot easier.
And then I have some, you know, other miscellaneous - things that I've been saving.
- Of course.
Are these sentimental items as well? - Yeah, yeah.
- Sentimental, miscellaneous items.
Yeah, so I, you know, at least I have 'em in a box, but You, Margie, you have so many amazing, cute, craft goods.
- You can make your own box that way.
- Oh, yeah, you know what? I could.
I could Or make the labels to go on them, you're right.
Absolutely.
Store sentimental items in a way that sparks joy.
For example, store them in a box that sparks joy.
So, separate them into the 80s, the 90s, the aughts It's very, very good mix of everything here.
Yeah! Look at my hair! - 80s? Maybe 80s? - Oh, 80s, 80s.
You know it's 80s.
Oh, God! I think all the baby steps I have taken has prepared me for this, this section.
It got through to me, as in some way I learned how easy it was to discard things, recycle things, whatever it might be, but I haven't had as difficult a time parting with things as I would have thought.
I can feel that the energy is brighter and that you are enjoying your life more.
And congratulations on successfully completing all the categories.
Thank you to my mentor and mentor extraordinaire assistant.
In these last few weeks, I think I'm getting a better sense that I am definitely stronger than I would ever have admitted to being.
So I-I, you know, that's why, looking forward to the future, what is out there for me? I, I don't know.
I know I'm capable of so many things and things that I have never considered.
So, you know, that makes it fun to get up each day and see what's gonna unfold.
There's a lot of stuff out here.
Ah! This looks really antique.
Oh! There's containers over there too.
- Hi! - Hi! - Hi.
- It's so nice to meet you! Hello.
This is my baby.
- Oh! - This is Lucy.
Well, come on in! We have a beautiful day here today.
Yeah, it is beautiful out.
Where do you want to start? I'll be happy to show you.
- Start with that room right there.
- Okay, lead the way.
Can I take a peek at the linen closet? Yes, linen closet.
Tah-dah! Eh! It looks so neat now! All by myself! The fact that you've mastered how to store everything to this level means you can work with any space going forward.
I'm realizing that through this journey.
Okay, so, on to the next room.
Okay.
Surprise! I am so surprised! My gosh, I'm floored! I've been working so hard! This is a completely different room! - It is.
- Oh, my goodness.
I have been working so hard and I wanted to surprise you! I can't believe there's I can't believe you can touch the carpet! I never thought I'd be able to do this and see this whole view of the carpet.
And that's my new hashtag, I wrote it.
"KonMargie.
" Similar, but different.
I think this will turn into a lovely room for your hobbies and your passions.
- Well, I did it.
- This room is complete! I know.
I just haven't slept in two weeks.
This process has been very therapeutic, I think.
In many ways.
It's sort of a rebirth for me.
This lovely old house that there's been so many wonderful memories shared here and so many more to make.
And to see how it's gonna shift, um, is anybody's guess at this point.
It is a little harder Actually, it was a lot harder than I thought it would be for myself.
You're saying goodbye to a life and all his attire was so representative of our life together for so many years.
It was hard.
But I-I have to think that he would be proud.
I-I could just visualize him in the family room, in his spot, just sitting there, with me spinning circles around him, 'cause that was often the way life was.
I hope he's amused and smiling down and giving me the thumbs up, saying, "You're doing the right thing.
" Unfortunately, Rick isn't here to continue on with the plans that we had made and the dreams that we had for our golden years, but I don't feel despair.
I feel, you know, very happy for the life we lived, and going forward, I'm anxious and excited for what lies ahead.
So how do you feel, Lucy, seeing how your mother progressed through this and made such huge strides? I am proud of her.
It's gonna be great for her to have a You can even feel the air and the energy in the rooms has changed.
Tidying Margie's home was an unforgettable journey for me as well.
I was so moved by "KonMargie's" endeavors.
- Thank you again.
- We'll see you soon.
Okay, bye.
- Bye! - Nice to meet you.
I am so happy that I was able to assist Margie spark joy in the next chapter of her life.
I was moved deeply by this experience.
It almost made me cry.
I wanna be stronger Let out my roar And tell the world that I'm wiser Let go my fears, You'll hear me scream Like oh, oh I'd walk through the fire, fire You know unbreakable I'm gonna get stronger Never gonna stop me