View out the front door here in Reno. Winter follwed me here.

I finally cleaned out the last of the file cabinet drawers today as we continue to ready the house for the auction pickup day on Tuesday. I managed to throw about more than half of all the paper that has accumulated over the past five years or so. It seems like a horrific accumulation of stuff, but I guess I should be grateful they relocated here from Hawaii five years ago, when it was terribly expensive to ship stuff here. Otherwise there would probably have been a truly overwhelming mass of paper and much more of everything else as well.

I try so hard to keep my own life simple, and dread dealing with things like insurance and taxes, paperwork and managing the stuff that collects and becomes burdonsome...and this is SO much worse. Think carefully before allowing yourself to become an executor or trustee for an estate. You don't deserve to be punished for someone else's neglect of their affairs or inability to control their uncontrolled impulses to accumulate stuff. It can feel like the theft of a lot of your time and energy.

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