Tag Archive: clutter

Dec
17

Project-Clearing for the New Year

Some wonderful memories and projects must leave my consciousness to prepare for the new. This includes clutter-clearing paper, materials and files to give new ideas and ventures the room they need. Gmail inbox | I insist on clearing/archiving this weekly and treating my inbox as a to-do list. It takes a long time at first, …

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Sep
03

Journey through my past thirty years–in 'things'

….via two large boxes from home. She warned me.  My mother sent an email after shipping off two boxes of  things she ‘would have scrapbooked but obviously won’t get to,” — the next logical conclusion was that I would want all of these ‘things.’ First of all, kudos to Mom for clutter-clearing!  Especially these ‘things’: …

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Jun
06

A good adage for Clutter Clearing – Day 2

One very tricky thing about clearing shared clutter is that sometimes you don’t know how attached your partner is to different items. For instance: I have gone through three phases of streamlining my comic books, and it was down to about twenty.  Once I confirmed with my guru of all-things-comic Corey Blake that no one …

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Jun
03

clutter-clearing question of the day

If I thought I had thrown something away that used to be very dear to me, and I didn’t feel badly about it then, should I feel badly about throwing it out now that I have the choice? There should be a clutter-clearing buddy system.