Clutter Confidential: Pack-Rat's House Gets A Makeover

Tag : Beige Tile

While shopping for a home almost 15 years ago, long before houseswere "staged" to sell, I negotiated my way through many a livingroom piled high with old magazines and wall-to-wall knickknacks.
I swore I would never live like that.
Our new town house is far from new anymore, and one look at theroom downstairs would've told you so. I threw anything andeverything into that room.
The list includes the sane: hundreds of books, music cassettes, 78speed record albums.
And the insane: baby teeth, chopsticks, size 8 clothes and an acidmemo from an ex-editor about shaping up or shipping out.
Had I become