GARBAGE AND RECYCLING: FATIGUING FINISHING TASKS In many of the homes I enter, as much as 40 percent(!) of the improvement is accomplished just by taking out the trash! To be clear, I am NOT referring to weeding/purging/culling where we organize possessions by sorting into ‘keep or go’ piles, the latter, depending on condition, for donation or trash. Instead I am talking about removing those items that have always or already been identified as garbage. This is not just possessions that are too shabby to donate but usually largely comprise pizza boxes, soda bottles, broken furniture, spoiled
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