Are you a junker?
The Nine Warning Signs of Junkitis
(according to Don Aslett’s Clutter be Gone)
- UNUSUAL DISCHARGE (from closets and shelves)
- THICKENING OR LUMPS (under rugs, behind drapes, under beds)
- NOTICEABLE SWELLING (of drawers, closets, files, pockets, waistlines)
- OBVIOUS CHANGE OF COLOR (in your face, when you learn you’ve just missed a garage sale)
- CHANGE IN PARKING REGULARITY (you start parking the car in the driveway because the garage is full of junk)
- A SORE ON YOUR SHIN THAT DOES NOT HEAL (you keep breaking it open stumbling over junk)
- UNREASONABLE TENDERNESS (toward shiny automobiles, souvenirs, and silverware sets)
- NAGGING COUGH OR HOARSENESS (from talking about your possessions, and from yelling at the kids for damaging things)
- NUMBNESS (to the people you know and places you go)