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Guides 6

• Sorting a bookshelf quickly

  Books are heavy and mostly worthless. A twenty-minute pass per shelf finds the few that are not.

• Clearing a house when you live out of town

  Clearing a house from another state is really a travel problem. A video walkthrough, a short list of things only you can handle, and local help booked ahead keep it to two trips instead of five.

• Clearing an estate: the first few days

  What to do before anything is sold, donated or thrown out, and why the order matters more than the speed.

• Sorting a record collection: the fast pass

  Most of a collection is worth very little and a few records are worth a lot. The skill is separating them without listening to all of them.

• Selling used furniture without the runaround

  Photographs, measurements and pickup logistics decide whether furniture sells. The price matters less than most people think.

• Sorting a house full of photographs

  Photographs are the one thing in a house you can't judge by size or weight. Start with the albums, keep the ask pile separate, and write names on the back while somebody can still answer the question.