A WELL ORDERED LIFE

"Your home is a garbage processing center where new things are purchased and slowly demoted through various stages of 'trashification' until you're done."     Jerry Seinfeld Doesn't this "feel" great?                                                                                                         I had to laugh at Jerry Seinfeld's description of what happens to our "stuff". But when I thought about it,  that's kind of what happens to things in OUR home.  After  a while things get "old" and they move into the "trash" category. So we have a garage sale...  to get rid of the stuff that has gone through the end stage of "trashification". Then after we get rid of our "trash", we g...

SIGNS OF SPRING: CROCUS AND CLEANING LIVE SIMPLY THAT OTHERS MAY SIMPLY LIVE... ELIZABETH SETON   We live in a consumer oriented culture. Everywhere we turn we're bombarded with messages that tell us we need the latest gadget, trendiest new fashions, updated furniture,  and on and on... It's hard to resist! But the end result can be a cluttered home, overspending, and too much time spent just taking care of all of our "stuff". So spring is a good time to de-clutter, simplify, prioritize, and  re-organize our lives. So today I'm focusing on DE-CLUTTERING...everything but clothing...that's for  another time. Here are three steps to DE-CLUTTER: 1) Find three large boxes and label them: DONATE, THROW, SELL 2) In deciding which box each item should go in, ask the following three questions:      a)  Do I need this? ( ie Have I used this in the last year? )      b)  Is it useful?      c)  Does it ad...