decluttering

"Life truly begins after you have your house in order," Marie Kondo says. Right now, my mom is trying to put our home in order, the century-old brick house that my family has lived in for nearly forty years. She's starting with the attic. "In another ten years, I might be too old to do this," she reckons. The attic contains the debris of her child-raising years, such as a diaper pail and a wooden potty chair. My brother Andrew, the youngest, will turn thirty-five soon. Frugal … [Read more...] about Cleaning Out the Attic