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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


This First Person column is the experience of Meg Whitton, who lives in Simcoe County in southern Ontario.

My partner replaced some screws, added some glue, and that evening, by the fire pit, a glass of wine on the armrest, I didn't think they felt spent at all.

A father and son brought cardboard boxes filled with sand to clear space for landscaping.

They paid him to throw out unsellable "donations" β€” bags of dirty clothing, broken toys with missing pieces and items left in the rain.

After several years on our living room floor and a dozen or so play sessions, I've convinced our kids, ages five and seven, that it can go to another family.

A few years ago, when professional organizer Marie Kondo's show on Netflix was teaching us to discard items that didn't bring us joy or when magazines and other blogs offered purging tips, I noticed no one seemed to ever ask why we bought it in the first place.


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