Articles devoted to organizing urge us to purge, clean, donate, sift, and to continually reconfigure our space. Recent trends include Marie Kondo’s essentials of tidying and “how to” of possession management; minimalist “less is more” purge mentality, and room makeovers that accommodate the desire of employees to work from home.

Lent is a season of self-sacrifice—a time when we purge our worldly our desires to gain a sense of what’s important. We can start with potential time wasters.