…that my husband isn’t a hoarder. He does like to collect a few things, but nothing I can’t live with.
Author Archives: Claire Middleton
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The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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When Decluttering Isn’t
I always thought decluttering meant ending up with less stuff. At least that’s how I do it. But buying organizers for 30 different tea bags or repackaging food that already comes in perfectly good containers seems wasteful to me. If you have less stuff, you’ll have less to organize (and to buy organizational systems for!)
It’s all about freedom; the less stuff you have, the less time you spend organizing it, so you’re free to do what you really want to do (unless you really want to organize tea bags, in which case, knock yourself out!)
The Lure of a Notebook
When I began writing, in my teens, I used a small turquoise portable typewriter, a hand-me-down from a relative. My parents gave me a nicer typewriter for my high school graduation. In journalism school, I learned to compose on the keyboard. By the 1980s, I had one of those new-fangled Amstrad word processors. Then the computer took over my life; every book I’ve written was created on a computer keyboard.
Nevertheless, I find notebooks incredibly appealing. It warms my heart to learn that I am not alone.