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Clutax is Here!

5-10--clutax.jpgLast night at a dinner party we ran into a friend who told us that clutter had become such a big issue between her and her husband that she had decided to take Clutax.

"Clutax?" We said, "What the hell is that?"

She told us that Clutax is a Canadian drug (@ $20 for 100 tablets) that makes it easier to focus and deal with decisions surrounding what to keep and what to throw out.

She told me her husband had become irate that every time he came home so many surfaces were covered with her piles of magazines, catalogues, work, etc.. She found it very hard to keep these piles down and...she could never seem to stick to any system she set up for keeping the daily flow of mail and paper organized. It was all just overwhelming her.

When she heard about Clutax through a friend, she figured it was far easier to take a pill than to gather any more strength or resolve to tackle this issue herself, and her husband agreed. After getting a bottle of the blue pills from her friend, she began taking them and within a week, she had cleared her entire apartment of all the piles she had once had.

It was suddenly so easy.

She threw out tons of old magazines and paper without a care, and neatly organized all of her home office files with color coded tabs. On Clutax, when mail came in the door it no longer piled up, as she made decisions right there and then as to what to do with each piece. She also cancelled a number of subscriptions to magazines and catalogues that she never had time to read.

With Clutax, she said, her life had totally changed and clutter was no longer a problem. Even her husband had tried it to deal with email and phone message clutter at his office. She gave us half of her bottle (see pic) and we started taking it this morning. We can't wait to clean up our apartment! (Thanks, Tori!)


(Re-Edited from Original post on 03 Dec 2004)


(This entire post is fictional and is intended for ironic and humorous purposes only. Clutax does not exist that we know of... yet.)

Comments (12)

Had me there for a moment -- wait, it's May 10th, not April 1st!!!!!

posted by Frank on 2006-05-10 13:09:50

Does the maker intend to come out with Florax, a drug to lower one's resistance to mopping the kitchen floor?

posted by wende in san francisco on 2006-05-10 13:11:42

O brave new world, that has no post-its in't!

posted by Henrietta on 2006-05-10 13:31:06

And the color is so trendy!

posted by M on 2006-05-10 13:48:35

If it did exist I could see people slipping it into their partner's drink...

posted by Christine (the one in DC) on 2006-05-10 14:16:10

...or replacing one med with another. Too bad it doesn't look like regular old tylenol.

posted by mary on 2006-05-10 15:16:47

Crystal meth now comes in blue pills from Canada? Wow. I bet the friend is looking pretty skinny these days. Wait until her teeth turn grey, then her boyfriend will really be surprised.

posted by Sharon on 2006-05-10 15:44:40

I think it's called Ritialn folks--steal it from your kids

posted by rs on 2006-05-10 15:48:12

Seems to me that the first piece of clutter to go should be the husband.

posted by Jeffery on 2006-05-10 18:06:10

I wish they had Notax, I needed that last month!

Holly

posted by decor8 holly on 2006-05-10 19:01:23

IT"S SPEED!

posted by ruby on 2006-05-11 10:55:44

darn! And I was ready to get enough for the whole family!

posted by Heather on 2006-05-11 14:42:34
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