Article: Tag sale: personal view with Carolyne Roehm.

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I do not know whether it was a phase, my age or a full-blown midlife crisis, but for the last three years I was obsessed with getting rid of "the stuff" that had been cluttering up my life and keeping me from being the streamlined, organized model of efficiency I longed to be. Years of buying glasses, linens, china, fabrics, decorations, vases, tablecloths, baskets--in fact, anything and everything that could inspire a party or a dinner or could be used in one of my endless projects--filled barn lofts, my studio, basements and every cupboard. I was beginning to feel that I lived in Fibber McGee's closet. I have lugged oversized umbrellas ...

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