I despise clutter. If there’s something sitting around the house that I have no use for, it generally finds its way to the garbage, recycling or donation bin pretty quickly. My mother is just the opposite.

When I was home at Easter, Mom was beaming over her accomplishment in the basement, and I have to admit it was much improved. At Christmas one room had been packed with a hodgepodge of kitchen appliances, books, magazines, enough clothes to cover the bodies of a small army and who knows what else. A few months made all the difference, spurred in part by a shelving collapse.

My esteemed co-worker, Thalia Bock, has been busy cleaning her apartment over the past couple of weeks as well. She, like many others, has a collection of many unwanted items and has been searching for eco-friendly ways to dispose of them.

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From the Peterborough Examiner- April 28, 2010