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The Stuff Cure: How we lost 8,000 pounds of stuff for fun, profit, virtue, and a better world

One secret of a happy life—having just the right stuff, with no clutter. The Stuff Cure shows you how this goal is achievable. It’s a proven method to unstuff your excess, organize what you keep, and regain control of your life. Along the way, you’ll find opportunities for fun, profit, virtue, and helping create a better world.

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Betty and J. Michael Sproule have shared 43 years of marriage—a life filled with opportunities to collect fabulous things from their dual careers, from raising two now-grownup sons, and from travel to 49 U.S. states and 17 countries.
Beginning married life with a 600-square-foot apartment, they became Stuff-Cure converts when faced with the need to downsize the contents of a Victorian-era house of 6800 square feet that was home to packed closets, full shelves, and boxes long unopened.
Finally they had to face the consequences of having lived in ever-larger homes in Ohio (twice), Texas, Indiana, Missouri, and California (twice).
By the way, if you’d like to pronounce our name the way we pronounce it, know that Sproule rhymes with “soul”—not “owl,” “school,” or “unruly”!

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  • Unstuff-athon Days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

    January 11, 2017

    The Stuff Cure Unstuff-athon is a personal improvement program targeted at improving your skills in unstuffing. Focus on 10 minutes of activity every day for two weeks with an objective to reduce the amount of stuff you own in a way that enables you to achieve fun, profit, virtue, and contribute to a better world. […]

  • Unstuff-athon Days 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

    January 10, 2017

    6. Sift sentiment Identify outrageously sentimental things in your life that you want to keep and locate where they are. Make sure they are where you can easily access them whenever you want. Take some pictures of these sentimental items to remind you of the people and stories that make them outrageously sentimental. Keeping these […]

  • Unstuff-athon Days 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

    January 9, 2017

    11. Detoxify Taxing Get ready for tax season. Organize your current receipts and set up a system for next year. As documents arrive in the mail and on-line, collect them in the spot where you keep your tax records. Throw out tax records that are over 7 years old to make room for new records. […]

  • Stuff in Sync

    February 22, 2016

    Here’s a bookmark that’s both functional and sentimental! The folks at the Calligrapher’s Guild of Southern California recently made a bookmark for me at their booth at the 2016 California International Antiquarian Book Fair in Pasadena. The sentimental part came in as a result of a story that my calligrapher friend, Joan, told me—the moral […]

  • Mom’s Kingdom for a Horse!

    November 22, 2015

    Most of the stuff that I inherited from my mother had been functional for her life but basically went from her basement to our attic and closets. In the years before The Stuff Cure, I hung on to some of her things because they reminded me of her. Well, I did pass on the treadle […]

  • Really Valuable? Who Cares?

    October 20, 2015

    On either side of the door in our bedroom, you see artwork. We even painted the walls a subtle green as an enhancing background for these pictures. On the left is a watercolor by Leland McClellan that belonged to Betty’s Mother and depicts an Ohio rural scene. The art on the right belonged to Mike’s […]

  • The Parents Just Got Smarter – About Stuff

    September 10, 2015

    It’s always nice to get recognition from your kids that they’ve learned something from you—after age 12! So we were pleased to see this Facebook post from our son, John, about his recent move. “I’m moved out of my house! When I thought about moving years ago I said that it’d take the giant size […]

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