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Speaker 1: into the subject of organization and my own little system,
Speaker 1: which I've very adorably called SIPs SIPs which stands for Sort, Inventory,
Speaker 1: Purge and Store. This is not the end all of
Speaker 1: organizational systems. No, I'm not going to write a book
Speaker 1: about it. It is just something that actually came to
Speaker 1: me as I was processing through how I help our
Speaker 1: own clients with their organizational issues. I realized that these
Speaker 1: are the four steps that I go through and it
Speaker 1: happens to spell the word SIPs. And what I thought
Speaker 1: was cute about it is that or interesting or both.
Speaker 1: Is the fact that organization it's all ahead game. It's
Speaker 1: all about our head and our heart fighting with each
Speaker 1: other over things that are meaningful and things that we
Speaker 1: don't want to let go of and things that we
Speaker 1: don't want to edit harshly out of our lives or
Speaker 1: out of our homes. And that's why we all end
Speaker 1: up holding onto more stuff than we should. Let's face it,
Speaker 1: it's all in our head. It truly is our head
Speaker 1: in our heart. And so this process of sorting and inventory,
Speaker 1: purging and storing, it's SIPs. It's a way to kind
Speaker 1: of help get around your heart issues on a thing.
Speaker 1: So you're taking a little sip of a thing, and
Speaker 1: you don't have to be intimidated by, you know, guzzling
Speaker 1: it all down at once like a fire hose. So
Speaker 1: I got to I got through sorting, which is the
Speaker 1: most critical step. It's also the easiest. We're not deciding
Speaker 1: to keep anything or get rid of anything, or how
Speaker 1: to store a thing. We're just making piles. I use
Speaker 1: the example of socks. There's really no way of really
Speaker 1: getting an emotional sense of how many socks you have
Speaker 1: until they're all in a pile together and then you
Speaker 1: inventory them. Step two, you sort and then you inventory
Speaker 1: how many socks do we have? We have forty seven
Speaker 1: pairs of socks and about nineteen unmatched singles. Well, those
Speaker 1: are gone, right, and then the forty seven pairs that
Speaker 1: are left. It allow you, once you've sorted something into
Speaker 1: that small of a category, it allows you to be
Speaker 1: more rational about this and say, I only have two feet.
Speaker 1: There are only seven days in a week. If I
Speaker 1: wore three pairs of socks every day all week long
Speaker 1: for an entire week, okay, that's only twenty one pairs
Speaker 1: of socks. And that's if I don't do laundry during
Speaker 1: the course of the week. So twenty one is not
Speaker 1: forty seven. And that allows us some real emotional impetus
Speaker 1: to make some cuts, right, to make some cuts, to
Speaker 1: reduce down to what's really really necessary. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about you having some spartan life in
Speaker 1: which you know, there's just there's your home, and there's
Speaker 1: a stool in the corner and a you know, in
Speaker 1: a hair shirt over there that you put on to
Speaker 1: punish yourself, an itchy shirt, one piece of clothing. That's
Speaker 1: not at all what we're talking about. What we're talking
Speaker 1: about is max the storytelling capacity of your home by
Speaker 1: editing things down and just dealing with a problem that
Speaker 1: we all deal with, which is too much stuff. Even
Speaker 1: those who are economically challenged among us the most still
Speaker 1: probably have too much stuff. Just something that happens to us.
Speaker 1: So we have sorted, we have inventoried. Now comes the
Speaker 1: time to purge, right, And that is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: When I say do I need forty seven pairs of
Speaker 1: stock socks, It's time to toss those out.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program today. We're talking
Speaker 1: about all things organization, and we've got to the place
Speaker 1: in my little system of sorting, inventory, purging and storage
Speaker 1: to give a little bit more intention to the purge.
Speaker 1: We all know that's the hardest part of this whole process,
Speaker 1: the purge getting rid of some stuff. And there's not
Speaker 1: a whole lot I can tell you other than to
Speaker 1: approach this as rationally as possible. From the other two
Speaker 1: steps they're sorting in the inventory, so you can actually
Speaker 1: get some emotional and mental perspective around just how much
Speaker 1: stuff you've got versus how much you need, and then
Speaker 1: we want to let it go. And we don't mean
Speaker 1: throwing it away. Most of the things that you've got
Speaker 1: that you're tempted to hang on to are going to
Speaker 1: be things that other people could use as well, and
Speaker 1: so pass it on, share the love. As our earlier
Speaker 1: caller suggested as well, there's the Salvation Army, there's Goodwill,
Speaker 1: there's the Rescue Mission. There are places that will come
Speaker 1: and pick up your stuff. There are places you can
Speaker 1: take it too. They take everything from clothing to furniture
Speaker 1: to everything, everything, everything, everything. The fact of the matter
Speaker 1: is there are others who could use it, and if
Speaker 1: that becomes an emotional point of leverage for you, allow
Speaker 1: that to be the fact that this thing's life doesn't
Speaker 1: end with you, but it moves on and it can
Speaker 1: find a new life and new memories with new people.
Speaker 1: The point is this, there are things you want to
Speaker 1: hold on to, things that aren't going to necessarily be
Speaker 1: sitting in your house on display. Memorabilia nostalgia keepsakes. Nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with that. The only thing about keepsakes that become
Speaker 1: problematic is when an entire garage and a rented storage
Speaker 1: area and five other rooms in your house are all
Speaker 1: full of them, because at this point they aren't serving you.
Speaker 1: Keepsakes should be sorted in such a way that you
Speaker 1: can go and sit down for a little bit of
Speaker 1: time you want to and revisit them. Not everything in
Speaker 1: your life, not every moment in your life, not every
Speaker 1: greeting card you ever received, not everything anybody has ever
Speaker 1: given you. No life, no human life, can afford to
Speaker 1: hang on to its memorabilia and become the Smithsonian Institute
Speaker 1: for your life. It's just not feasible, And believe me,
Speaker 1: it is a far greater burden. Allow memory to serve
Speaker 1: its function. And ideally, memorabilia are things that set off memories,
Speaker 1: not having to relive every single moment, every single detail,
Speaker 1: but things that set off the best memories for you
Speaker 1: along the way. Those are the things that are worthy
Speaker 1: of keepsakes. And then we purge the rest, We purge,
Speaker 1: we let it go. Now we finally come to the
Speaker 1: question of storage, because when we've done our of sorting
Speaker 1: and inventory and purging, we've got stuff left and the
Speaker 1: question is what do we do. How do we handle
Speaker 1: the stuff that's left well, that finally comes to storage,
Speaker 1: storage now me be really clear. Storage comes in two forms.
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm so hesitant to even say this in
Speaker 1: the same sentence, but I'm gonna say it anyway. When
Speaker 1: it comes to closets inside your house, that's not storage,
Speaker 1: not storage at all, but I'm gonna just put it
Speaker 1: in this term, right. Storage comes in two forms, staging
Speaker 1: and long term storage. Now what's the difference. Okay, Well, technically,
Speaker 1: I guess everything that's in your home, inside a cupboard,
Speaker 1: inside a cabinet, inside a chest of drawers, or furniture
Speaker 1: or whatever, is storage. But I would rather you think
Speaker 1: of it in terms of staging. What's in your house
Speaker 1: is ideally best described as staging. What is staging. Staging
Speaker 1: is what furniture and closets are for. It is a
Speaker 1: resting place, a short term storage place for frequently used
Speaker 1: items to be able to access them. Okay, like your
Speaker 1: sock drawer. Okay, not with forty seven pairs of socks
Speaker 1: in it, but a few pair of socks, and it's
Speaker 1: there for you to get to and get at because
Speaker 1: you go to it every single day. It's that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. Staging. Staging is different than long term storage.
Speaker 1: Long term storage are simply the things that have to
Speaker 1: be stored away somewhere that are important but aren't going
Speaker 1: to get used every week or every month or looked
Speaker 1: at every other day. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: So I'm very serious about this, and I really push
Speaker 1: my clients to the point of them usually being very
Speaker 1: annoyed with me. But I'm very serious about it. Closets
Speaker 1: in your home if you are using them as they
Speaker 1: should be used in a home. And I'm a home designer,
Speaker 1: so I know all about what closets are for. They
Speaker 1: are places where we stage things. Stage the clothing that
Speaker 1: you actually wear, Stage the shoes and the socks, and
Speaker 1: the hanging items that you actually realistically go to, stage
Speaker 1: the stuff, the sports gear or the whatever that you
Speaker 1: actually use on a regular basis. Closets are short term
Speaker 1: staging areas staging long term storage. That's for the garage
Speaker 1: or for the storage shed, or for wherever else you've
Speaker 1: got a room to do that kind of stuff. Long
Speaker 1: term storage, it's about crates, it's about shelving, it's about
Speaker 1: organization and so on. In the garage. By the way,
Speaker 1: the workbench staging the area above the workbench staging. Okay,
Speaker 1: peg board or slat boards up there so that we
Speaker 1: can put in little hooks and fixtures to hold tools,
Speaker 1: to organize the screwdriver set, to keep things organized and
Speaker 1: clean and clear so you can get to it when
Speaker 1: you need it and hang it up out of the
Speaker 1: way when you don't need it. That is staging. Long
Speaker 1: term storage is stuff that you know you still own,
Speaker 1: but you don't have to see it or you're not
Speaker 1: going to deal with it. And that's the kind of
Speaker 1: stuff that we want to get as clean and clear
Speaker 1: as possible and up and out of the way. Long
Speaker 1: term storage the one area that is just kind of
Speaker 1: the hybrid between long term and store storage and staging
Speaker 1: would be like holiday decorations, the stuff that comes out
Speaker 1: seasonally because you know it's going to sit there for
Speaker 1: six plus months at a time, let's just call it seasonal.
Speaker 1: If it's seasonal, it's gonna sit there in long term
Speaker 1: storage for about nine months and then you need to
Speaker 1: access it and then you use it and then it
Speaker 1: goes away again. But other things are on long term
Speaker 1: storage that aren't seasonal, they're just long term storage. Okay,
Speaker 1: So here are the clues about that. We want to
Speaker 1: keep things off the floor as much as possible so
Speaker 1: they're not in the way. But there are so many
Speaker 1: options when it comes to long term storage these days.
Speaker 1: I just walked through the aisles of my local home depot.
Speaker 1: It's a couple three days ago, and I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm going over and see what's going on with the
Speaker 1: crates and everything. Man, every time I look there, there
Speaker 1: are more and more storage ideas. Heavy duty storage racks
Speaker 1: that hold crates in a way that they slide out
Speaker 1: and are easily accessible. Crates are being built better and
Speaker 1: better with stronger lids and longer sidewalls so that crates
Speaker 1: can be stacked and nested on one on another and
Speaker 1: stand five six seven crates tall, only taking up a
Speaker 1: relatively small area labeling the front of them so you
Speaker 1: know what's in each one. There are so many ideas.
Speaker 1: I'm going to share a few more with you, But first.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1: Happy Father's Day, Glad that you are here. It's a beautiful,
Speaker 1: warm day here in sunny southern California. I hope wherever
Speaker 1: you are today, wherever you're listening from, that the weather
Speaker 1: is treating you well, and I hope that your family
Speaker 1: is treating you well. And if you're a dad, happy
Speaker 1: Father's Day. And I hope that your family is celebrating you. Today,
Speaker 1: we are finishing up our conversation about organization and storage
Speaker 1: and all of it. And we've come to this place
Speaker 1: now where we've gone through the sorting and the inventory
Speaker 1: and the purging. I hope, I hope we've got enough
Speaker 1: purged that we're in the storage mode. And I shared
Speaker 1: with you before the break that storage in a home
Speaker 1: comes in two forms, long term and staging. Closets in
Speaker 1: your home, furniture in your home, staging, staging. I guarantee you,
Speaker 1: as hard as that may be to embrace, if you
Speaker 1: set that as an inviolable rule for yourself that inside
Speaker 1: your home furniture and closets are for staging items that
Speaker 1: are frequently used, you will never live to regret it.
Speaker 1: Never live to regret it. Okay, you don't need more
Speaker 1: closet space most of you. You just need less stuff
Speaker 1: and to get a little bit more organized along the way.
Speaker 1: It doesn't apply to everybody. I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1: Don't write me emails about you don't know how small
Speaker 1: my closet. I get it, especially if you live in
Speaker 1: an older home, like a pre World War Two era home.
Speaker 1: I know, hardly any storage whatsoever. But what's interesting. You
Speaker 1: know what's interesting about pre World War two homes. They
Speaker 1: reflect a very very different lifestyle, a very very different
Speaker 1: economic strata. Homes built before World War Two, built in
Speaker 1: the twenties and the thirties, which there are a lot
Speaker 1: of them in every town, including here in southern California,
Speaker 1: people just did not have as much stuff, and yet
Speaker 1: they seem to be living perfectly, healthy and happy lives.
Speaker 1: It's a different way of looking at the world. Material
Speaker 1: possessions were on a different scale back then. That's why
Speaker 1: there aren't that big of a closet in the primary bedroom.
Speaker 1: That's why there isn't as much storage. There just wasn't
Speaker 1: as much stuff. Some to think about, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's something to think about when it comes to storage
Speaker 1: for the garage. There are so many innovations these days
Speaker 1: that are available heavy duty overhead racks. If you have
Speaker 1: a dry walled garage, or even if you don't, if
Speaker 1: you've got a well supported garage ceiling above you, you could
Speaker 1: take advantage of these overhead racks. They're built to work
Speaker 1: around the garage door opener. Both sides of the garage
Speaker 1: door opener take advantage of that area up there. They're
Speaker 1: relatively easily accessible. Some of them are incredibly accessible. Some
Speaker 1: of them. If you've got the budget for this, you
Speaker 1: can get a garage hoist, a motorized hoist that literally
Speaker 1: will lower that stuff down to the floor of the garage.
Speaker 1: You pull the car out, lower that down, get whatever
Speaker 1: you need out of there. It's a good place to
Speaker 1: store seasonal things, and then right up it goes back
Speaker 1: up to the ceiling again out of your way. It's
Speaker 1: a tricky thing garage ceilings, because most garage ceilings still
Speaker 1: have a traditional garage door opener that kind of cuts
Speaker 1: off the whole midpoint of the garage. For some of you,
Speaker 1: getting rid of that garage door opener is actually the
Speaker 1: first step in getting better organized in your garage. And
Speaker 1: you're like, Dan, it's a garage door opener. I said,
Speaker 1: I know. Here's the thing. The traditional garage door opener
Speaker 1: that sits up on the ceiling and breaks up the
Speaker 1: whole ceiling access up there can be replaced with a
Speaker 1: modern garage door opener that is direct drive and actually
Speaker 1: mounts on the wall next to the garage door. Nothing
Speaker 1: out in the middle. Now you still have the tracks
Speaker 1: running back there, okay, but you don't have the big
Speaker 1: opener in the center, and so you can get three
Speaker 1: sections of storage going on in your garage instead of
Speaker 1: just two or even less because you've got the opener
Speaker 1: and the tracks to negotiate around. So that's something that
Speaker 1: you should look into. A door wreck drive wall mounted
Speaker 1: garage door opener bringing up the entire center space in
Speaker 1: between the tracks of that sectional garage door. In addition
Speaker 1: to that, I already mentioned slat boards or peg board.
Speaker 1: There's still nothing wrong with peg board. Honestly the least
Speaker 1: expensive way to organize tools and stuff out in your
Speaker 1: garage up above your workshop cabinets. Still nothing beats peg
Speaker 1: board in economy and effectiveness at the same time, plus
Speaker 1: stackable crates and again things that are staged, things like
Speaker 1: tools that you use in your household all the time.
Speaker 1: Let's say you don't have a workbench, then bucket organizers
Speaker 1: five gallon four dollars buckets from the big box store
Speaker 1: with a good bucket organizer put inside one for gardening,
Speaker 1: one for household tools, one for miscellaneous materials for a
Speaker 1: project that you might be doing. Bucket organizers are a
Speaker 1: brilliant way of getting things out of your way and
Speaker 1: not losing track of them. All right, let's go back
Speaker 1: inside the house now. Okay, let's talk about those closets
Speaker 1: we've purged. Now we've got stuff, and we want to
Speaker 1: keep closets going in the best way possible. Closet systems
Speaker 1: inside your closet. The oldest and most traditional closet system
Speaker 1: is what we call in the industry shelf and pole,
Speaker 1: shelf and pole, and that is a closet rod with
Speaker 1: a twelve inch shelf sitting above it, mounted to brackets.
Speaker 1: Maybe the brackets are wood in old school shelf and pole.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're metal brackets with a little cup on the
Speaker 1: end that holds a little shelf or a platform that
Speaker 1: holds the pole along there. There's absolutely nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: good old shelf and pole. It's the least expensive in
Speaker 1: some ways, it's the most durable. Okay. The only thing
Speaker 1: is if you're installing more of it yourself, you need
Speaker 1: to make sure that a secure ledger on the back
Speaker 1: that's holding up the shelf actually gets screwed into the studs,
Speaker 1: not just the dry wall in between the studs. That's
Speaker 1: a sure path to disaster when it comes to shelf
Speaker 1: and pole. Okay, so we want a ledger and we
Speaker 1: want to hit the studs. So a little stud finder
Speaker 1: and you can put in your own shelf and pole
Speaker 1: really easily. Here is the thing. Though, I'm not a
Speaker 1: big fan of pre built organizers. I find most of
Speaker 1: them are kind of particle boardy and cheap and flimsy.
Speaker 1: I am a huge fan of top hanging closet systems. Okay,
Speaker 1: top hanging closet systems. You can find them at place well,
Speaker 1: you can find the most advanced forms of them at
Speaker 1: a place like the Container Store, the Alpha system. You
Speaker 1: can also find them at Ikea. You can find them
Speaker 1: at home Depot and lows in the shelving aisles. They're
Speaker 1: kind of open wired shell coded wired shelves there. But
Speaker 1: top hanging systems are brilliant. And what is that. It's
Speaker 1: a system in which there is a hooked rail that
Speaker 1: mounts all the way up against the ceiling and you
Speaker 1: put several screws into it. And you know why, you
Speaker 1: can do that easily all the way at the ceiling,
Speaker 1: because that is where the top plate of your wall is.
Speaker 1: That's nothing but solid wood up there, left or right.
Speaker 1: You don't have to find studs, it's all going to
Speaker 1: hit wood. You can literally put a bunch of screws
Speaker 1: into that top rail up there, and at that point
Speaker 1: it can hold literally hold thousands of pounds. And then
Speaker 1: with that rail come these hanging stanchions that hang down
Speaker 1: that have slots in them for shelves and or accessories.
Speaker 1: They just clip on and they hang down on the wall.
Speaker 1: All of their weight is being supported by the top
Speaker 1: plate of the wall. And these stanchions coming down, they
Speaker 1: can slide left and right, they can go wider, they
Speaker 1: can go closer together. You can put a ton of
Speaker 1: different accessories. You can have single hanging, double hanging shoe racks,
Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff going on them. It is a
Speaker 1: great system. And the thing I love about it is
Speaker 1: that it's a modular system, meaning, you know, closets, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, should be allowed to evolve, just like people's
Speaker 1: lives evolved, just like like the home evolves, and you
Speaker 1: go through different phases of time. Right, there's a time
Speaker 1: when you need that long hanging for those formal suits
Speaker 1: and the addresses, and there are other times when you're like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm way past that now. I'm not
Speaker 1: even wearing suits anymore. I'm not wearing We don't need
Speaker 1: the dresses. We only need a very small space. I'd
Speaker 1: love to reorganize my closet. So the one downside of
Speaker 1: shelf and poll or fixed fancy cabinets inside a closet,
Speaker 1: as nice as they are, is that they don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of flexibility. But these top hanging modular systems,
Speaker 1: we can simply get all the clothes out of there,
Speaker 1: slide some things around, take double hanging, turn it into
Speaker 1: single or single hanging, and turn it into double. We
Speaker 1: can add storage shells, we can add shoe racks, we
Speaker 1: can redesign the closet with the existing materials, and maybe
Speaker 1: just adding another shelf for two and one more trip
Speaker 1: to the store and another couple of accessories, and you
Speaker 1: reconfigure the closet for your current needs. There is just
Speaker 1: a lot of wisdom in having a closet system that's strong,
Speaker 1: that's efficient and modular, and that can change with your
Speaker 1: changing needs. And if it all comes down to well,
Speaker 1: that's all well, and goodeing. But I want a really nice,
Speaker 1: fancy walking closet system. That's fine. I would suggest this.
Speaker 1: You can call a place like California Closets. By the way,
Speaker 1: as far as the closet places are concerned, they're not
Speaker 1: the sponsor of the show. But I'm going to give
Speaker 1: you this endorsement. Those guys know how to do it well,
Speaker 1: and I find the quality kind of what works well
Speaker 1: with the pricing. But if you're going to get overly
Speaker 1: fancy inside a closet, just get your cabinet guy involved.
Speaker 1: Just bypass the typical closet stores and closet service people
Speaker 1: because you will find that they are charging inordinately large
Speaker 1: prices and putting in materials that you wouldn't even put
Speaker 1: in in your kitchen. And So, if you want a
Speaker 1: quality cabinet built into your closet the way and you
Speaker 1: want it to hold up the way your kitchen cabinets
Speaker 1: hold up, and guess what, call the kitchen cabinet company
Speaker 1: and have them work up a closet design for you
Speaker 1: and get that built in. You will not regret it.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: If you're going to spend the money, just spend it
Speaker 1: the right way. Otherwise, go with a modular system. You're
Speaker 1: going to be thrilled all right more when we return.
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Speaker 1: Just go there for more information. So wrapping up our
Speaker 1: thoughts on storage and organization today, I've taken you through
Speaker 1: the steps that I've kind of developed over the years
Speaker 1: that inadvertently ended up spelling the word SIPs. Is that
Speaker 1: a word? What I get an actual scrabble score for SIPs?
Speaker 1: I guess it's plural of sip, right, more than one
Speaker 1: sip is SIPs. But that stands for sort, inventory, purge,
Speaker 1: and store. And the reason I've taken you through those
Speaker 1: steps is because you know we, as we've said, storage
Speaker 1: and getting rid of stuff and thinning out stuff in
Speaker 1: our home. It's all it's all ahead game. It's all
Speaker 1: about your head and your heart holding on to things,
Speaker 1: and we all need to do a better job. I
Speaker 1: think of letting go of those things, not letting go
Speaker 1: of nostalgia or memory or anything like that. But you
Speaker 1: know you're coming to a home designer and you're asking
Speaker 1: him whether or not you know something should be removed
Speaker 1: from a room, or whether the amount of things in
Speaker 1: a room should be lessened. You're going to get a
Speaker 1: lecture on telling a story in that room, and you're
Speaker 1: going to get my lecture on making focal points, not
Speaker 1: having too much stuff distracting you from the story and
Speaker 1: the vibe that you want that room telling you. And
Speaker 1: unless the story that you're trying to tell is confusion
Speaker 1: and clutter, it's time to probably do some editing and
Speaker 1: get rid of some things along the way. Sorting non
Speaker 1: judgmentally without having to commit to throwing anything away is
Speaker 1: the first most important step, and it gets you to
Speaker 1: that place where you've sorted things. Now you can inventory them,
Speaker 1: and when you're looking at isolated categories like how many
Speaker 1: T shirts do I actually own? How many socks do
Speaker 1: I have? How many files of this or that of
Speaker 1: medical records from when I was twelve or when the
Speaker 1: kids you know were years and years younger. How much
Speaker 1: of this do we need to keep? That is when
Speaker 1: when you see the piles of it just in one category,
Speaker 1: it gives you emotional leverage over that and it allows
Speaker 1: you to get rid of some stuff and to clear
Speaker 1: it out. And then when it comes to storage, just
Speaker 1: remember staging is for inside the house, closets and furniture.
Speaker 1: Staging it means short term storage or frequently used items.
Speaker 1: Long term stuff. Get that out of the house, get
Speaker 1: in another area, get it well organized in the garage
Speaker 1: or a storage or area, or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: Long term stuff. Treat it differently than staging along the way,
Speaker 1: and you will have a happier, lighter life. And by
Speaker 1: the way, once you get all this set up, the
Speaker 1: ongoing discipline is simply this. You're going to run into things.
Speaker 1: Tina and I run into things every time we take
Speaker 1: a trip. We're like, oh my gosh, I love that.
Speaker 1: Let's bring it home and put it on display in
Speaker 1: our home. We do it even now. The difference is
Speaker 1: knowing that our room, most of the rooms in our
Speaker 1: house are full of the story that we're telling. So
Speaker 1: bringing that home means that it's going to get exchanged
Speaker 1: for something else that's already there because we don't just
Speaker 1: keep adding to and adding to and adding to and
Speaker 1: adding to. Okay, it just they can have their place.
Speaker 1: And if you decide to rotate seasonally the story of
Speaker 1: a room, fine with that too, just put it in rotation.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know what, I can't have this, that
Speaker 1: and the other thing all here at once, but I
Speaker 1: can do it every three months or every six months,
Speaker 1: and everybody gets their shot at being on display in
Speaker 1: the room, just like a Just like an art gallery
Speaker 1: or a museum will have, you know, exhibits, roving exhibits
Speaker 1: that well, this exhibit will be on display for the
Speaker 1: next three months, and don't miss out because then it
Speaker 1: goes away for another year. These are all just methods
Speaker 1: and techniques for doing this kind of thing, all right.
Speaker 1: I hope I have helped you through at least a
Speaker 1: couple of speed bumps along the way there and get
Speaker 1: you started in a good sense, all right. True confession,
Speaker 1: I don't really have any brilliant Father's Day thoughts for
Speaker 1: you today, but I'm going to be as transparent with
Speaker 1: you as I can be here because it is Father's Day.
Speaker 1: Here's my transparent confession. I woke up this morning really
Speaker 1: missing my dad. I lost him thirty years ago, and
Speaker 1: the more I thought about that this morning, the more
Speaker 1: I realized that I'm now the only person alive on
Speaker 1: this planet who really knew him and who knew us
Speaker 1: as father and son together. I'm the only one left
Speaker 1: who holds those truths. He's still here with me because
Speaker 1: I have my stories and my albeit imperfect memories. But
Speaker 1: it made me sad to think that when I'm gone,
Speaker 1: he will be gone too. And that's sad because he mattered.
Speaker 1: He wasn't famous or wealthy, or legendary or anything that
Speaker 1: anybody else would think of being memorable. But he was
Speaker 1: my dad, and he mattered. I wish I knew him better.
Speaker 1: I wish he'd been around to see who I've become.
Speaker 1: He left this world just when I was starting to
Speaker 1: become something as an adult. I wish he'd been around
Speaker 1: to help me through a lot of the things that
Speaker 1: I've been through, instead of me always having to just
Speaker 1: guess my way through what it means to be a
Speaker 1: good man and a good person. I hope he would
Speaker 1: be proud. Mostly I just wish he was around. I
Speaker 1: still feel him in things like tools and pocket knives,
Speaker 1: fishing tackle, things that creep on creep up on me unexpectedly,
Speaker 1: and suddenly he's there with me again, doing something like
Speaker 1: when I was a kid. So that's all I got
Speaker 1: for you today. I'm just gonna say this, This is
Speaker 1: my dad. And if your dad is still around, just know,
Speaker 1: with all his frailties and his faltering and his imperfections,
Speaker 1: he matters. And so find him, give him a hug
Speaker 1: and let him know that he matters. And that's it.
Speaker 1: And I hope that that's something that you can do
Speaker 1: and that it's not too difficult, because I have a
Speaker 1: feeling doing those kinds of things are the way that
Speaker 1: we continue, day by day to build ourselves a beautiful one.
Speaker 1: And so very very happy Father's Day to all of
Speaker 1: you today, have a great week. We'll see you right
Speaker 1: back here next weekend. This has been Home with Dean
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