The Stuff Cure Unstuff-athon is a personal improvement program targeted at improving your skills in unstuffing. Focus on 10 minutes of activity every day for two weeks with an objective to reduce the amount of stuff you own in a way that enables you to achieve fun, profit, virtue, and contribute to a better world. […]
6. Sift sentiment Identify outrageously sentimental things in your life that you want to keep and locate where they are. Make sure they are where you can easily access them whenever you want. Take some pictures of these sentimental items to remind you of the people and stories that make them outrageously sentimental. Keeping these […]
11. Detoxify Taxing Get ready for tax season. Organize your current receipts and set up a system for next year. As documents arrive in the mail and on-line, collect them in the spot where you keep your tax records. Throw out tax records that are over 7 years old to make room for new records. […]
Here’s a bookmark that’s both functional and sentimental! The folks at the Calligrapher’s Guild of Southern California recently made a bookmark for me at their booth at the 2016 California International Antiquarian Book Fair in Pasadena. The sentimental part came in as a result of a story that my calligrapher friend, Joan, told me—the moral […]
Most of the stuff that I inherited from my mother had been functional for her life but basically went from her basement to our attic and closets. In the years before The Stuff Cure, I hung on to some of her things because they reminded me of her. Well, I did pass on the treadle […]
On either side of the door in our bedroom, you see artwork. We even painted the walls a subtle green as an enhancing background for these pictures. On the left is a watercolor by Leland McClellan that belonged to Betty’s Mother and depicts an Ohio rural scene. The art on the right belonged to Mike’s […]
It’s always nice to get recognition from your kids that they’ve learned something from you—after age 12! So we were pleased to see this Facebook post from our son, John, about his recent move. “I’m moved out of my house! When I thought about moving years ago I said that it’d take the giant size […]
