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• 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.

• Clearing stuff out when you have no truck

  Most of the pain in a cleanout is the trip to the dump. Measure the pile in loads before you rent anything, know what the transfer station wants, and spend the first hour of a rental on the worst stuff.

• Where to start when there is too much stuff

  A house full of possessions is not one job, it is a few hundred small decisions. This is the order that keeps you from making them twice.