Each and every day as we walk by a pile of clothes, newspapers, shoes, nicknacks, etc. we seem to give no thought to how their presence affects us. Living on the East Coast forces us to at least clean out our closets two times per year because of the change of seasons. Yet living here in beautiful Southern California more easily allows us to collect old, worn out, unnecessary things. We put these things in our garages or attics because we don’t have basements. As those spaces fill up we start just putting them where we can fit them, inside our bedrooms or closets and before you know it the piles have taken over our living space. (more…)