I’d love to see some “How much should I save for retirement” | “Am I on track for retirement” calculators actually take into account a 2+ income family.

As far as “real” spring cleaning goes, just remember that you’re paying extra to store all that stuff, heat and cool it, shelter it, etc. etc.

My solution was to change the way I looked at the things I owned, so they’d stop owning me:

http://theartofzenliving.com/2008/04/the-tyranny-of-stuff/

I just did a big purge on my closet and books as well, and I think there’s still stuff to go.

I love Half Price Books, about half the purchases I make there end up being rent, because I sell it back in a year or two.

Another technique I use is the Read It Later firefox extension. It uses a local favorites folder to store its set of URLs which you can read and “check off” another time. Combined with Foxmarks for bookmark syncing, my list of things to read follows me from computer to computer.

I’m probably about 2/3 of the way through purging books and magazines. Oooh! My husband just called and told me the stacks of books he turned in from this decluttering got us $30. I smiled every time I saw a “used” sticker on a book I was giving up, and smiled even bigger when one of the books was going right back from where I bought it, Half Price Books.

It is simultaneously difficult but freeing to rid the house of excess stuff! I hope your spring cleaning went just as well.

Coke is on the list it is about 18 or so from the top of the list

Derrick