Woman's Day

THE UNEXPECTED JOY OF DOWNSIZING

If your home is like most people’s, it probably contains half-completed projects, an old coffee maker you keep just in case you need it again and gifts gathering dust in cabinets.

Such homes are filled with what I call “un-objects” – things unwanted and unopened, that go unused, are unappreciated or simply unnecessary.

The stuff you own is

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