Clearing Out Years of Stuff: How We Did It

“…an old No Fear ad campaign says, ‘the one who dies with the most toys still dies.’ But instead of heeding this simple wisdom, we continue filling our pockets with rocks [...]

Taming of the Shelf

It all began with a wonder question posed by my husband as we contemplated what to do with the cluttered bookcase that takes up an entire wall in our 1875 home: Why would we keep a book? This [...]

A Thoreau Book Signing

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover [...]

Take a Load Off Your Devices: Clearing Digital Photos

If there was a clearing theme for me personally this year, it would be the year of the pixel. More specifically, the year to clear my massive collection of unloved and unseen photos (over 36,000 [...]