I quickly began to wonder if Clutter Busting by Brooks Palmer (©2009) was some kind of joke. The book reads as though it were written by Stuart Smalley, a character from the old Saturday Night Live program. “You’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and doggone it, you don’t need this stuff to feel special!” That line pretty well sums up the two-hundred pages of this tepid book. In fact, this book was so anti-inspirational it almost made me want to go out and buy something in order to feel better.

At work today I helped toss out a lot of stuff from the counseling office, including three old electric typewriters — not “cool” old typewriters, but hideous beige plastic typewriters from the late-1980s or early 1990s that were broken and missing their power cords and ribbon cartridges. We also tossed out three computer towers that had stopped working years ago, and multiple dust-covered boxes of miscellaneous outdated forms, policy manuals, and worn-out office supplies.

Still no action on the house listing, even though the listing has been picked up by most of the local real estate web sites.