The warmer weather has been trying to settle in for the past couple of weeks, and homeowners are beginning to feel that spring cleaning fever. One can hear leaf blowers in the air preparing the landscaping before the first blades of grass begin to bud. Others might just be a little more conscious of the items that are cluttering their home. But the one commonality we all have is that we are looking forward to the freshness of spring and want our homes to reflect that. With that being said, spring cleaning can be somewhat overwhelming especially for homeowners who...

What do a manager of a major company emeritus and business owner, a retired seventy-year-old and a fifty-four-year-old Washington DC rigorous exerciser have in common? They are each road trash warriors. No, these are not some unemployed persons looking for work or prison inmates. Is that who you think of when you see those individuals with their hefty garbage bags and trash pickers or grabbers cleaning up the side of the roads and highways?  When I would see those people on the side of the highways using trash pickers, I never gave them much of a second thought. Well, I...

What should a retiring accountant do with the painstakingly handwritten files and working papers that he has in his possession for the last forty years? Some devoted professionals might look at the clearing out of an office as a morbid activity. What can one show for all years of hard work if not a beautifully decorated and organized office filled with filing cabinets and working papers? This is especially true when we realize that paper filing is a thing of the past. Doctors’ offices are notorious for having paper files in plain sight for all to see. I sometimes wonder...

It was a truly frigidly cold New York day outside this week, so I decided to do something practical and accomplishing, reorganizing my clothing closet. I prepared two heavy duty color coordinated trash bags in my room to make sure I do not make mistakes as to which bag, I want to toss the various items into. One color was for garbage, another was for the thrift shop. Yes, some items did need to be thrown out in a garbage bag. For example, I would be too embarrassed to give old worn-out shoes and sneakers to Goodwill or the Salvation...

Checking my garage storage shelves yesterday to see what I needed at the supermarket, I noticed that we had overbought both clear trash bags and black garbage bags over the last eight months. Because of the pandemic, we worried that supplies of trash bags would be depleted and along with my supply of paper towels and toilet paper, many of the boxes of bags are laying around waiting to be used. Yes, I am still diligently using the heavy-duty plastic outdoor trash bags to line my outside garbage cans and keeping them super clean and sanitary. I even got compliments...