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Claudia and I threw out everything we owned this weekend. We threw out 98% of everything. There are about 30 garbage bags and another 20 boxes filled with stuff. "Stuff." We had just spent six weeks traveling around and except for the stuff we were traveling with we realized we didn't need anything else. No papers, books, extra sheets, clothes, extra plates, tables, lights, etc. I didn't even miss these things once. 25 years' worth of memories in some cases. Part of this is an experiment. I'm interviewing Marie Kondo in a few weeks. Author of the 2-million-copies bestseller The Art of Tidying Up. I wanted to try her suggestions. She said before you "organize," you "discard." But once we started discarding, we couldn't stop. We discarded everything. All of our rooms are now pretty empty. And it's not like we are going to replace anything. If anything, having less leaves room in your life for more, for other things. That is the trick. Marie Kondo suggests you lay everything out side by side. Then you touch each