Steven Robbins here.

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Jen wrote in,

I'm going through boxes of mementos and I can't decide what's worth keeping.

I can digitize paper, but I have a hard time letting go of old things.

How do I decide what's worth keeping? Clutter. Clutter saps our energy, clogs our productivity,

and makes it hard to find clean socks. A lot of our clutter comes from the things we accumulate

over the years. Consider items in groups. One day I counted the books in my to-read-sumday pile.

Assuming I read an average of 20 books a year, given my projected lifespan and allowing for

vacations, that one pile represented 10% of the books I will read during the rest of my life.

Having figured this out, I immediately knew that this particular

collection of books was not the collection I wanted to be 10% of my remaining lifetime reading.

But a funny thing happened. When I considered the books one by one to decide which ones to give

away, I had a reason for keeping every one. As a group, I didn't want them. Individually, I did. Most clutter works

this way. We see it en masse, and we think, ick. But considered item by item were attached to each

one. Here are three quick and dirty tips to break free of the clutter. Tip number one,

use the group to set limits. Start by considering the

group. Taken collectively, how much do you want to get rid of? What's the maximum amount you want to

keep? You'll use this information later. Choose your maximum before you consider things one at a time.

Look at your six rooms of mementos and decide, I want to keep

just two rooms. That will free up four rooms for a guest bedroom, a craft's room, a sitting

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