Category: rightsizing
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Towels with grease stains; jam jars in amusing shapes; books started but never finished. There’s stuff hanging around our closets, basements, and bookshelves that is of questionable use and doesn’t, as Marie Kondo’s KonMari method famously espouses, “spark joy.” And yet there the clutter sits, ready for a new home–be it a gift to our…
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Our closets are full. So is the attic, basement and every cranny that can hold papers, memorabilia and photo albums. To say nothing of unused dishes, scarred pots and chipped figurines. Getting rid of some or all of that stuff is formidable. It looms like a climb up a mountain of slag. And yet, do we…
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I've written, possibly too often, about how cleaned-out closets are part of our legacy to our children and other assorted heirs. That is, whether they're in basements, attics or closets, the collections of items we no longer use and we know our kids don't want should be dealt with by us. We should chuck those…
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This is a post I wrote several years ago. It's my simple guide to right-sizing or downsizing or just cleaning and clearing out closets that are jammed too full of stuff. My motivation for clearing my closets (and attic storage) was a move from a house to an apartment. But another incentive was in…
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National Gallery, Hannah Steele “You are my inspiration,” my friend Eva tells me. She’s not referring to anything creative or ingenious I’ve done. The reference is to the method that helped me downsize/right-size from a sprawling 4-bedroom suburban home (where Paterfamilias and I brought up two children) to a tight, two bedroom urban apartment that’s…
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Line up your legacy to keep the family peace over the sentimental stuff.
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Whether we’re parting with our home or from our spouse, our grown children feel the pain.
