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Aging in Place: Preparing Your Home for the Chapters Ahead

May 19, 202611 min read
Aging in Place: Preparing Your Home for the Chapters Ahead

A new Smart Reduction™ sub-service. Built for Boulder, useful anywhere. Most of us spend more time planning a vacation than planning how our home will support us later in life. That is rather backwards. Surveys consistently show that 70 to 80 percent of older adults would prefer to stay in their homes as they age, […]

15 Signs You Own Too Much Stuff

May 18, 20266 min read
15 signs

And one small move for each. Less weight. More room. More life. Most of us cross the line gradually. Nobody decides, on a Tuesday, to…

Swedish Death Cleaning Explained

May 18, 20267 min read
Swedish Death Cleaning

A kind gift you give while you’re still here. If the phrase Swedish Death Cleaning makes you flinch a little, you are not alone. It…

50 Good Reasons to Let Go of Stuff

May 13, 202610 min read
50 Good Reasons to Let Go of Stuff

Sorted into seven honest categories. Less weight. More room. More life. I had boxes of Lego. Wonderful stuff — decades’ worth, complicated builds, the kind…

20 Ways to Quiet Your Digital Life. Less reacting. More deciding.

May 13, 20265 min read
20 Ways to Quiet Your Digital Life. Less reacting. More deciding.

Most of us did not choose this much noise. It arrived in installments. One app at a time. One notification at a time. One feed…

Do you own a “project car”?

May 6, 20268 min read
Project car

When a dream on wheels becomes a weight on your life. And how to tell the difference. I admire cars. I visit them in museums.…

Could books be part of your legacy?

Apr 20, 20267 min read
Could books be part of your legacy?

I read about one or two books per month. That works out to roughly eighteen a year, or 180 a decade. Over an adult reading…

The Power of Digital Picture Frames

Apr 16, 20265 min read
The Power of Digital Picture Frames

Small device. Quiet hum. Photos that earn their place daily. There is a small digital picture frame on my desk. It hums quietly. It cycles…

How to Tackle Your Book Collection (Without Regret)

Apr 15, 20268 min read
How to tackle your book collection

Smart Reduction™ for the shelves, the stacks, and the “I’ll read it someday” pile. I have about four hundred books in my home. Some are…

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