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Tired tanka
You shouldn’t notice Where your bones run. Muscles ache, Shoulders, elbows, wrists. Fingers, not to be trusted. And yet more work still to do.
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Looking for expert help
December is flying past…it’s almost time to start the Hundred Day Decluttering. Now, what’s the best way to go about it? I know lots of ways to fail to bring my house under control. What I need now is...
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The Hundred Day Cleanup: How Not to Do It
I’m already twenty days into my big clear-out-the-house-in-100-days project, so things should be starting to look good, right? Wrong. I haven’t made much progress at all in draining my swamp. It’s time...
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The Hundred Day Cleanup: One Step Forward, Two Steps Sideways
Here we are, at around 8 in the morning on the thirty-fourth day of 2015. That’s as close as you can get to one-third of the way through the first hundred days of the year. And how am I doing with the...
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Best Laid Plans (1)
About a year and a half ago, I started cleaning out my mother’s house, and almost immediately learned that keeping stuff “because I might need it someday” or “because it’s too good to throw out” is a...
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Best Laid Plans (2)
In short (but it didn’t feel short, not at all), it took two cold icy slippery winters separated by a hot, sweaty summer to clear out all that junk. And after that, the house desperately needed a good...
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24 Bankers Boxes
That’s what I have in my living room right now. Two dozen cardboard boxes full of papers from my mother’s house. Unsorted, miscellaneous, mostly-but-not-all worthless papers, just the way I found them...
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The Great Emptying: Expert Advice
…from a certified incompetent: me. I think we’ve all come across the Number One bit of expert advice on getting cluttered papers under control – “Handle each piece of paper just once.” It sounds so...
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5 Steps to Becoming Very, Very Frustrated
(Plus 2 things to do next, and 5 steps to actually deal with the problem.) 1. Decide it’s time to clean things up. 2. Realize you’ve got a lot of old papers with information that could be useful for ID...
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It’s been a hundred days
…since the start of my second try at getting my house all cleaned up. How’m I doing? Have I drained my own personal swamp? Is the place immaculate and empty? Well, no. It’s cleaner than it was, and...
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