Porch Prophet

The Guide

The Reset

40 pages · PDF

In Progress - Out This Autumn

Strip a life back to what actually works

Forty pages, no filler, no philosophy you cannot use by Saturday. The room-by-room method, a ninety-day calendar, and the four questions that decide whether a thing stays or goes.

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What's Inside

01
The room-by-room method. A fixed order of operations for every room in a house, so you never stall halfway through a pile on the floor.
02
The four questions. A decision rule that settles whether an object stays, in under ten seconds, without sentiment doing the deciding for you.
03
A ninety-day calendar. Thirty minutes a week, mapped out, with the weeks you are expected to fail already built in.
04
The buy-once checklist. The full annotated list of what is worth replacing properly once the subtracting is done.
05
The re-entry plan. What to do about gifts, hobbies, and the six months after, when everything quietly tries to come back.

Who It's For

Written for the man who has already tried

You have done a clear-out before. Possibly several. The garage looked good for a month and then quietly refilled, and the conclusion you drew was that you lack discipline.

You do not. What you lack is a method that accounts for the way things come back – the gifts, the hobbies, the sales, the vague sense that you might need it. This guide is built around that problem specifically, which is why it spends as many pages on the six months after as on the weekend itself.

It is not for you if you want a philosophy of simple living, or photographs of empty white rooms. There are better books for that, and they are mostly free at the library.

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Questions

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A PDF, designed to be read on a laptop or printed and marked up. The ninety-day calendar is built to be printed and stuck somewhere you will see it.

No. The essays argue the case; the guide is the method – checklists, sequences, and decision rules that were never published on the site.

Ask for a refund and you will get one, no explanation needed. A guide about not wasting money should not waste yours.

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