Saturday, March 3, 2012

CHARITY, WITHDRAWAL USED TO BATTLE CLUTTER.(Home)

Byline: Cox News Service

Dana Jenkins, who teaches a popular cleaning course, suggests these measures to avoid a semiannual cleaning marathon:

Fight clutter one room at a time. Eliminate four boxes of stuff a week for two months or until you have completed every room, the basement and garage. If you hesitate, repeat to yourself, "My time and space are worth more than manufactured goods and money."

Label four cardboard boxes "junk," "charity," "sort" and "emotional withdrawal." Put everything broken, outdated, ugly, useless or faded into the "junk" box. Throw it all out. Into the "charity" box put things that are repairable, duplicates or the wrong …

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