What I've learned about death cleaning (so far)

Dreading the job is harder than starting it

I found this apt metaphor on the sidewalk near my house. Photo credit: Giyen Kim

We’re death cleaning.

Don’t worry: Rael and I are in fine health. Death cleaning is shorthand for a thorough declutter undertaken to save one’s kids from having to do it when one is inevitably…undertaken.

I first heard the term when I came across a book called The Gentle Art o…