In my household, “spring cleaning” isn’t necessarily limited to springtime. It happens whenever my wife and I come to realize we need to downsize, reorganize or reinvigorate the general atmosphere of our home. During these times, my wife will often put me on closet duty or pantry or freezer duty. Any place in our home that perhaps has gone ignored for a while and contains a variety of things all stored away.
Projects such as this are generally meant to be two-pronged missions:
- Throwing out what we don’t need or want, or in the case of the freezer, what is no longer fit to be consumed by human beings. It happens.
2. Organizing what remains is a way that is optimal for easy access to, and use of, the space it occupies.
I have a problem though. When I tackle such a project, I tend to focus almost entirely on prong number one. I just want there to be less stuff! To my mind, having fewer items to dig through automatically solves the problem of prong number two. My wife disagrees. And she’s not wrong. There is something to be said for clearing away the excess to enable one to then see a much more coherent organizational paradigm presenting itself among the stuff that remains. You can then categorize, bunch together, and otherwise contain each category of thing together in a way that can make life much easier.
But man, there is something about seeing a growing pile of things that you will no longer have to deal with that just feels highly productive. Maybe it’s my own neurosis, but sometimes even if it’s stored away, completely out of my line of sight and awareness, just knowing it is there feels like clutter. I swear there is a parallel universe somewhere in which another me is living out in the woods with no possessions but a T-shirt, a pair of sweatpants, a bowl and a fork.
The point is you’ve got to declutter, and then, sure, re-organize.
We can help you with a little bit of both at Horihan Insurance. When it comes to your insurance coverage, in many cases more is better, but it’s simply not always so. There will come a time when you realize you could do with less coverage, or at least fewer policies than you currently have, or that there is at least some junk to be chucked out. Well, none of it is junk, but you get what we’re saying. A chance to eliminate some redundancies, let’s say. But as you do that, Horihan Insurance will make sure the pieces fit back together in a way that best suits the space it occupies, otherwise known as your life. And that is something well worth re-organizing and optimizing.
If, in the course of removing the excess, we see a gap left in your essential coverage, we’ll do our best to replace that piece with something that works for your life and your budget. That’s an area where we excel at Horihan Insurance, quite frankly. It is our duty to help you find the appropriate balance in that facet of your life. No, we are not going to clean out your freezer or your pantry or your closets, but we look forward to helping you simplify this all too often perplexing thing called insurance.