Sunday, November 06, 2005

09:11 PM

I say yeah

How to boost your happiness level immediately: start throwing stuff away: "Mark Frauenfelder:

If you aren't getting rid of your possesions at the same rate you are acquiring them, your living space is getting more and more cluttered. Clutter depresses me. I love getting rid of junk. Here's a great column by Mark Morford of the SF Gate on the joy of de-gunking your pad.

The cure is simple, so graceful that it will make you feel lighter and healthier and good the minute you start, and of course you can start right now and you don’t even need any drugs or wine or nudity, though those always, always help.

This is what you do: You throw stuff out. You go through your closets and you fill up garbage bags and you even grab stuff you’ve clung to for years for no apparent reason, and you haul it all down to Goodwill or Salvation Army or (in the case of San Francisco) leave the usable stuff out in the street overnight and let the urban recycling phenomenon work its magic, as some lucky passerby scores your old futon and the three grungy frying pans you haven’t used since 1987.

Link (via 43 Folders)"

(Via Boing Boing.)