Clutter

Some time ago I read an article about a group of people who decided to de-clutter their lives.  Not by merely having a garage sale to get rid of a few unwanted items, but to get rid of virtually everything they owned, leaving them with the absolute bare essentials.  Having spent some time lately reorganising things in the house I can well understand why you would want to do that - it is so easy in our society to fill up the house with stuff, even without trying.  It's a bit like your computer - sometimes you just need to format the hard drive and start again from scratch.  Unfortunately the OS included with the house didn't come with a "format c:\" command.