Small Streams

Clear the Decks

We're done decking the halls here on Fairmount Street. I'm now picking through and throwing away. At least I'm reading about it. Websites like Organized Home.

I also thought I saw something on 43 Folders about how to clean a room. Can't find the link and have spent too much time looking for it. The short description is this: Look at the room you want to clean up. What's the first thing you notice? Sock on the floor -- pick it up. What's the next thing? A book to be shelved -- shelve it. And so on.

I am, however, less interested in organizing and cleaning than I am in just flat out throwing things away. I've got a big cardboard box and a whole bunch of trash bags in the basement. So I hope to go into the New Year without about eight or ten bagfuls of trash, or maybe eight or ten bagfuls of stuff that I can shine up and give to other people.

Here some links on media clutter:

Seattle Times article on the interruptive nature of technology.
Too much of a good thing
Less stuff more happiness?

Posted by mastr at December 31, 2004 11:47 AM