by Robert Wall | May 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
If I had 30 seconds on a radio show to tell everybody in the listening audience how to declutter, this would be what I would share. Ready? The process is called “iterative decluttering”. To begin with, let’s get into our standard decluttering mode:...
by Robert Wall | May 26, 2020 | Old Drafts, Uncategorized
There’s nothing wrong with being sentimental or having positive sentimental attachments to stuff. (Insert pause to give you time to jeer and throw rotten fruit. Got that out of the way now? Good!) The problem is that too many of us have what I would consider an...
by Robert Wall | Sep 16, 2016 | FromUM, Uncategorized
It’s an easy trap to fall into. Societally-speaking, “being organized” is the thing that’s valued, so that’s what we prioritize. As long as our stuff can fit into the containers we have, on the shelves we have, in the storage spaces we...
by Robert Wall | Mar 9, 2015 | FromUM, Uncategorized
When I was a kid, our school made us a simple offer: read books, get free pizza. Our teachers would set reading goals for us, and when we met those goals we’d get a free personal-size pizza (donated by Pizza Hut). Of course there were some kids who were pretty...