by Kevin Burton We should do this more often. This was salve to an aching heart. Driving around with my wife, looking for garage sales, soaking in that 60s music sound. It was the weekend of our town’s citywide garage sale. On the horizon: low-priced treasures we can not live without, that we …
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Home Decluttering Means No To Garage Sales
by Kevin Burton Just two hours on a recent Tuesday greatly enhanced how we feel about our house, and all we did was open the front door. Electricians came and executed six of the seven small projects we had scheduled. The seventh is much more involved than we thought because of the way …
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Quibbles And Bits: Leftovers And Hoops
by Kevin Burton For most people, but not for me, today is Black Friday. To me it should be National Leftovers Day. There is a leftovers day, Nov. 29. Leftovers Day should be a holiday falling on the Friday after Thanksgiving every year. If you are hosting you have your own leftovers. If …
That Warehouse Look Annoys My Wife
by Kevin Burton This is going to be harder than I thought, maybe much harder. Home sweet home is getting a makeover. I have written about my mother’s move to an assisted living facility last summer and the chaos of organizing her new place and fitting new furniture and other things into our …