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"It makes people's lives superior, and they love it," she said. "Is Your House Overweight?" is available in bookstores and through Sharon's website .
Sharon and I selected Pauline's South Euclid serene for our project because she wasn't a hoarder (those folks were beyond a quick fix) and was willing to rout out items. The goal was to see how much a team could accomplish in one day.
When Sharon and her husband, Stain, arrived at Nance's home, we trooped upstairs to see the large atticlike cell. Four double clothes racks and about 40 hatboxes -- labeled with things like "Sunless Straw," "Purple Winter" and "New Red" -- dominated the array.
All around were items we all toss into storage areas: empty cardboard boxes, wrapping instrument, mystery shopping bags, children's chairs, a window fan in its box, pinch Christmas presents, an Easter basket, a calendar from 1987.
Pauline said she would inamorata to replace the battered orange carpeting and host card parties up there the way she habituated to to. Neither could happen until the room was cleaned up.
Source: Plain Dealer