By Peter Anderson You could begin with everything in the house: the phones, the tools, appliances, the knick-knacks, the paintings on the wall. Clear out all the piles of paper – bills, tax returns, term papers written in graduate school, back issues of obscure magazines and journals. Take all your books to the library. Give all the furniture to Goodwill, all the old canned goods to the soup kitchen, all the old tools to Habitat for Humanity. Get rid of anything that needs to be plugged in. Make your will. Leave the kids what they will need to get started. ...
