This post is sponsored by The Home Depot. Despite my best efforts to stow things where I’m SURE I’ll find them, on any given job I spend WAY too much time searching for the parts and tools I need. Although occasionally someone else is to blame for “relocating” the items I need, more often it’s likely due to a combination of encroaching senility and too much information competing for too few remaining brain cells. In any event, my efforts to get a bit better organized got a little boost when the Home Depot recently sent us a DeWalt Parts Organizer to evaluate. Read More
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The Occasional Minimalist
For the past few years I’ve been reading articles, watching YouTube videos, and even documentaries about minimalism (the act of downsizing in order to live a more meaningful life, not to be confused with the art movement that emerged in New York in the early 1960s). While I love the idea of downsizing, I do not have the constitution to be a “born-again-minimalist,” like so many of the minimalist gurus out there. In fact, my search for minimalist hints in books and on the internet only came about out of need when I moved from a three bedroom house in Connecticut to a small two bedroom apartment in Colorado. So, I am here today to propose a cutting edge new philosophy: Occasional Minimalism. Read More
