Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Possessions”
This headline (above) in the New York Times caught my attention (and maybe my subject line caught your attention, too.) My first thought was it meant, “Don’t stew over things.” “Don’t overthink.” Both, I admit, are occupational hazards in my 17 years at Personal Money Manager™ as a financial organizer / daily money manager. After all, my job is …
Way back when (July 2022 to be exact), I wrote a blog / newsletter “Beyond the Will”. I called it “Part 1”, knowing that there was a lot more to say than I could include there. I planned to write a “Part II” including even more estate planning tasks that Personal Money Manager™ does with older adult clients. For …
It’s not an easy lesson. And I learned it the hard way…. One spring evening in London, I went to hear Robert Bly recite his poetry. He had won the National Book Award for Poetry in the US a few years earlier in 1967, yet the audience was small. Afterwards, we all went to the local pub for a pint. …
I remember Dad’s Clutter Game that he invented for my siblings and me when we were young. It was a good rainy-day activity that kept us busy and out of each other’s hair. And it seemed to satisfy his life-long crusade against clutter. How would we get rid of stuff? Dad would set each of us up with paper grocery …
A few years ago, I was asked to speak about decluttering and organizing. As my audience took their seats, I offered a basket of letter openers bearing my company name, and invited them to help themselves. Then I began my talk. I mentioned the trap of freebies, suggesting that “a freebie isn’t really free.” Once we take them home, they …