by Robert | Apr 14, 2011 | FromUM, Uncategorized
“But I paid $1000 for that!” This is the sound of frustration, as yet another consumer (we’ll call him Joe) learns a very hard, yet very valuable lesson. Let’s look at how he got here. An Illustration Joe spent $1000 on a piece of exercise...
by Robert | Jan 8, 2011 | FromUM, Uncategorized
Everybody makes a big hoopla about January 1st. Parties are thrown, television specials are aired, people talk about what’s past and what’s to come, and they make resolutions – fantastical promises of what they’re going to accomplish in the...
by Robert | Oct 22, 2010 | FromUM, Uncategorized
If I were Kevin Trudeau, I’d call this post “the decluttering secret ‘they’ don’t want you to know about”. It’s simple, it’s fast, and it can be done in a small portion of an evening. Most important however, it’s...
by Robert | Oct 4, 2010 | FromUM, Uncategorized
If you’ve been following the blogs about minimalism, decluttering, and reducing possessions, you might have noticed something interesting – many of them talk about the importance of reducing your stuff, without discussing the methods for doing so. Some of...
by Robert | Sep 5, 2010 | FromUM, Uncategorized
Decluttering has gone mainstream. There are tools that help you declutter (such as totes, bins, and various nifty storage systems). There are books that teach you to declutter. There are even entire websites devoted to the topic (like the one you’re reading)....
by Robert | Jul 13, 2010 | FromUM, Uncategorized
“Never make the same mistake twice, if it can be avoided”. That’s good advice, but unfortunately it relies upon you having a good memory. One of the places where my memory just doesn’t work correctly is at the grocery store. It can be hard to...