Collecting My Thoughts

 We are moving to a retirement community, and frankly my dear, I'm pooped.  And so is my husband. On Friday we had a quick trip by ambul...

  We are downsizing for a move. I expected a lot of dust, mustiness, foxing, mystery computer and TV cords and clothes that will never fit a...

Sometimes you have to wonder about the modern "sustainable" and eco-friendly life style. I can still remember when we were encour...

Does your husband (or you) save screws, nails, tacks, and pieces of unidentified plumbing parts, TV wires, and pencils too small to use? We ...

This afternoon I'm going through all our trip memorabilia--most of it in two large storage boxes in the furnace room. Alaska, Arizona (t...

A good friend knew I was sorting and pitching things (some back to retirement) while moving back into my office after Phil's death, and ...

We had an interesting program at Lakeside this morning on "Organizing 101: Simplify our Stuff" by Chris Perrow. One member of the ...

Instead of buying off the shelf storage units for the garage, we had some new shelves and a tall closet built to hang out with the former ki...

Librarians who buy materials for libraries are doing the task called "acquisition." When they decide to get rid of that which the...

4313 Flat Panel TVs The other day we saw our neighbors' children haul away their TV armoire. They have a new flat panel TV which fits...