I’m deeply into major clean-up mode. It’s long past time. Procrastination is the root of all dross and accumulation. We buy bigger dwellings because, as George Carlin pointed out, we need someplace to put our Stuff.
I am of mixed feelings about this, though. I’ve been emptying the two big closets in the basement. A great deal of this has been little more than taking things out of one box, which was only half or less full, and putting them in another box with similar things that also was not full. Almost as much, there’s been a lot of throwing out. …