 So, what do you do with all your junk? Well, my wife, Jenny, had an old rule. If you get something new, you have to get rid of something old. How do you do that? Our house is full of stuff we use and stuff we don't use but want to keep for sentimental reasons. Did your wife have a rule for sorting those out? Well, actually, she did. Those things we use, she kept close by where we could get to them easily. Those things that we held on to for other reasons, she kept in the harder-to-get-to places.