by wwm | Jul 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
I saw a photo of a sign on a beach that had a dozen-ish rules. These included some rules very specific to the beach (“no dogs”), but it also included a number of rules that were not only common sense, but weren’t just rules for the beach – they...
by wwm | Jun 11, 2020 | Old Drafts, Uncategorized
Mini storage, self-storage, storage units – whatever you call it, it’s big business in the United States. Renting a storage unit usually involves a psychological trade-off. “I’ll put this stuff in this little locked building, and then I...
by wwm | May 28, 2020 | Old Drafts, Uncategorized
Pretty much all of our photos / movies that we’re currently taking are digital. Most people have a ton of photos on their phone, and a number of people are even digitizing their old photos / movies so that they can “future proof” their memories. This...
by wwm | 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 wwm | 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 wwm | May 10, 2020 | FromUM, Uncategorized
I wrote this originally as a guest post for a site called Minimalism Defined. The author of that blog has since taken their site down, and I don’t want to let this post disappear – so I’m re-posting it here. I think it’s particularly...
