A Clean Start: The Seasonal Sort

I’m a seasonal sort, programmed for certain activities at specific times of the year. My Friends are posting about happy New Year’s Day traditions, parades and football games, gourmet breakfasts, birding walks. Not for us. Every January 1, we make a clean start by sorting through the Orchard Supply closet. It’s our tradition.

This year I told hubs to pretend we’re moving (we aren’t) and toss whatever we wouldn’t take with us, old electronics, unidentifiable power cords, half burned candles, ma...