The recent Fall Prevention day gave me reasons to hate some advice from "authorities " (and I use that word loosely. Too many "do this" generalities from people who perhaps never fell down.
There are, however, life-saving things we can/should do. Now.
Why? Because there might be a day when we let ourselves get a little dehydrated. At least once, I fainted and fell at a major design open house. The EMS made me drink a bottle of water, and I was good to go. If it had happened on apartment stairs - too scary. What has this to do with clutter? Remove some clutter that will give you room for an unopened bottle of water: NEAR THE TUB, in the kitchen, in your purse, upstairs if you have an upstairs, and BY THE BED.
Even clothes can be dangerous, especially the ones on the stairs waiting to go to the cleaners or the washing machine.
If you have stairs, even 3 or 4, take the "stuff to go up, stuff to go down" OFF the stairs. . Get a storage locker for them. Put them in the trunk of the car. Give them to newlyweds. Or just put them in a basket at the top or bottom, NOT on the steps. You can get a prettier basket later. Make yourself do it now, SET YOUR PHONE TIMER. Don't talk on the phone while you move these killers.
(Yes, I can afford to be bossy on that because I don't have stairs.)
I will probably put some of this on HEN BACKTALK as well. More later.
Be safe.
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