Some Tips.

I spent the day today cooking a pre-Thanksgiving dinner and trying to scramble things for the upcoming production of Return to the Forbidden Planet, so I didn't get a lot of Clean-Out stuff done.  I do already have 15 donation bags for the pick-up on Friday.  Which may be twice as many as I said I'd have.  And I do look at the remaining "trouble zones" in the house (with the exception of the garage...ack) as being a lot more manageable than I did when I started.  I've gotten some of the most daunting things out of the way, thank goodness.

So here are some tips from this week.

Tip 1:

This comes from Brian Johnsen:  employee, friend.  His wife Jenny told me that his wisdom is that if you haven't touched something in 6 months, move it on out of your house.  I think there may be an exception for seasonal clothes.  This is smart in a lot of ways.  I also don't know that I could do it - probably 75% of the stuff in my house falls under that category.  Which may be why I really *should* do it.

Tip 2:

If you cook pudding and forget about it and the bottom of the beautiful stainless steel pain gets a thick, black crust on it...the thing you want for that is the Scotch Brite Stainless Steel scrubbing puff things.  It's not a fast process, but it really does get that black stuff off.

Tip 3:  

Fortitude.  Things in all quadrants may look like a disaster.  It is important not to fall over and give up.



That's all I've got.