While we’re waiting for content to magically plant itself in my brain (or pencil, or wherever it goes), please enjoy this pack rat from a few years back.  I posted it on a previous blog dedicated to decluttering and packratism.  Here’s the blog entry that went with it:

OK, check this out. I was on the bus this morning reading Making Peace with the Things in Your Life: Why Your Papers, Books, Clothes, and Other Possessions Keep Overwhelming You — and What to Do About It by Cindy Glovinsky when this idea hit me. It involves rewarding yourself for completing tasks, like putting away your clothes. Only you use M&Ms as the reward. You have a bowl of them sitting there, tempting you… And all you have to do is get up and clean/sort/put away/file/fix one thing, or maybe one group of things, and the M&M is yours. Who can eat just one M&M?? You’d be flying all over the house dejunking so you can get more tiny bits of precious chocolate. Plus, the flurry of activity will burn off those tiny M&M calories and fat.

Should I give this method a name, or just skip ahead and call it Failed Plan #27?

Mmmm…. chocolate…