As a teen, I visited an older relative's basement. The only feature of the house I remember was a basement wall stacked high with columns of newspapers. I spent multiple minutes staring incredulously thinking, why keep them all? Now perhaps, they made great insulation against the northern cold protecting that basement wall. Not likely.
That brings me to the question of our reading material. I've heard the question posed, "Is your reading material current?" One question begs another. Is the coffee stable piled high with reading material: magazines, junk mail, or newspapers that are months old? How about the mail pile wherever it all lands? This is a problem in our home. I could easily purge, but others like to read through it, and I don't want to be the offender who threw away a catalog for which someone pined for weeks. I just wish they'd read it sooner than later!
Consider this question today: is your reading material current? If periodicals are months or years old, you may not have time to read them. It's somewhat freeing to get rid of them. Recycling is a declutterer's best friend. Just toss in those old newspapers, magazines, and junk mail, and you've got a more serene space.
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