Scott Adams keeps coming up with the neat ideas. This time on de-cluttering:
My other de-cluttering idea is what I call the Toy Jail. It's a closet beneath the stairs where I plan to toss anything found downstairs that doesn't belong there. In any given day the family drags in many pounds of miscellaneous stuff that is, for one reason or another, too valuable to discard, and too worthless to have its own space in the house. Generally your home has no established storage area for miscellaneous, odd-shaped, crapinalia. In our new home, that sort of thing will find a final resting place in the Toy Jail, along with any toy that should have been put away and wasn't. When the Toy Jail gets full, we'll probably have to move.Of course, in Australia, officially this would be a Toy Gaol.
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He will keep coming up with good ideas as long as you keep forgetting that you have already covered them! :)
http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/2009/04/toy-jail.html
Similarly, I guess a goldfish will think his tank is "Full of interesting new features" when, in fact, it is the same plastic treasure chest he swam past 3 minutes ago....
That said, it IS a good idea!
I am all about de-cluttering — although it is much easier to do with other peoples things rather than your own treasures. I do love your photo idea. My mother-in-law is just moving to a smaller place and having to decide what to keep and what to let go. I will pass on the info.
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