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De-cluttering My House and Life

Monday, May 29, 2023 | 30 Views |

This week I am at the village and ‘working on projects’. When you spend more than a week at the village the official, acceptable and respectable reason is you are ‘working on projects’.

Otherwise there’s a real possibility of folks wondering whether you don’t have the fare to get back or you are some kind of fugitive running away from the serious city law.

City law is supposed to be more stringent and tougher than village law. So when you spend more than a week at the village and it is not the festive season your relatives keep casting furtive and suspicious glances at you wondering which bank you could have robbed.

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