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I would say the subject is spring cleaning. Later on Sunday morning for her friends.

It's no mystery why Pauley barrette is a star of the TV series NCIS, Tracy Smith has our Sunday profile is a 38 H Doyle it seems there's no case to top of her NCIS's shootout to crack Eureka but now actress Holly barrette is trying to figure out how to say goodbye. It makes me sad to imagine a world that did you go through that whole grieving process is celebrating what we have carried Holly barrette on life beyond the lab ahead this Sunday morning with Luke Burbank will be taking a Sunday drive to meet a contest winner who is one really big cheese in January, some 30 Cheese Professionals Sniffed Their Way through blind smell tests and yes cut copious amounts all at the behest of a man wearing a cow cost and saying okay insanely delicious spectacle of the cheese Monger invitational later on Sunday morning will have those stories and more. When Sunday morning continues. Clean sweep is often the only sensible option when confronting our piles of unnecessary stuff. Easier said than done.

Our cover story is reported by Barry Peterson, along with the mountains and with this is a good part #2 self storage facilities. There are more of them Dunkin' Donuts subways for McDonald's combine think about the events just for the stuff we can't fit inside her home, where there's more stuff piled in closets, bedrooms, garage basements, the sole meaning of life is trying to find a place for you so you house is your house is just the place for you so so this is my basement. This is what I like to call organized chaos appreciates the late George Carlin sure though not exactly in a laughing mood I would like to purge about 70% of this basement to sort through her possessions in suburban New York. The accumulation single mother with two kids just a bit desperate to have a garage sale for 10 years since very overwhelming, unlike all my guys. It's so much stuff I don't know where to begin to keep category have the donate category and then we may even have a thorough category. I know that she just wanted to seek professional help, professional organizer ritual should sue. I was looking for.

I don't know what a clinical social worker I know your lack of attachment and your lack of trauma based accumulation is not according situate.

This is life situation.

So exactly how we end up like this. We don't know how to manage our money properly and so when something is on sale. We feel we might as well get in every single color we have so much stuff because I don't do enough research before we make a purchase. We have so much stuff because we are insecure ritual should remember the national Association organizing professionals part of the $1 billion industry helping the rest of us in our laws out of our laws: below is president she sees in our consumer society.

The roots of too much clutter. I will find things and bags that have not even come out of the bag. It's the thrill of the hunt. It's the thrill of the purchase. Sometimes Americans are by far the world's largest consumer culture results in an overstuffed closet sitcom go, like God. Everything is worth noting that some people find clutter helps with clear to Albert Einstein once joked, if a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind of what is empty desk sometime. He was not alone. Steve Jobs and Mark Twain also notoriously messy desks but Claire Reeves who lives in Houston. Once the clutter out of her life and death. She turned to Ellen the lab for help somewhat when you say your goal for the space of a I mean, I like to be able to walk in alchemy items you bought and will never use it when you think that addresses never again where he readily said I think I'm ready to really clearly, she learned a lesson about too much stuff from hurricane. She helped her neighbors wanted out just the sheer volume stuff that had to come out and it just gets attached and it just reinforced today.

If everybody safe, and everybody's healthy that's what's important in life model. Not all at this now that you've done.

How do you feel I feel great. It's like a weight lifted off his shoulders, except for those of us stuff ends up storage. This is the saddest of all. Now instead of free garbage to visit your garbage focus on the TV show might beg to differ. When people stop their storage lockers off the bars, hoping to find hidden treasure for this filmed and the laws of California. I tell them when you hold little to restore says everything so I know that this business never dies the word out about time when there are positive will become your ratings knowing they come here anymore clutter Andrew Mellon hopes to change this is scarves and have scarves announce also the stuff your life Mellon has been called the most organized men in America. It will take the same amount of time for you to hang your coat. The coat closet is a will to drop it on the chair. Listen to his advice about saving old close feel like I've just given away some part of my new work is the culture going when you're not young anymore because you're not young anymore. It has nothing to do with the garments that you're wearing Mellon uses is 633 square-foot New York apartment short sleeve longsleeve as a classroom for his client. Clutter is nothing more than different decisions, and he doesn't even have the luxury of a garrotte. According to the 25% of people with two car garages have no room for the call and 32% have room for one we park cars worth tens of thousands of dollars in machines weight because our garages are full of stuff many times is worthless. You explained that because were not thinking about the choices that were making this you're still in the films about whether to tackle spring cleaning anytime soon. Here's a little gentle persuasion, there's a statistic that says that we waste a year of our life looking for lost or misplaced because it's five minutes here it's 10 minutes there one sentence to get people off the sofa and starting to de-clutter. What is set yourself free. It's just stuff.

It's just stuff this is a CBS News special question of survival with CBS News correspondent Walter Cronkite and now page from our Sunday morning almanac April 22, 1970, 48 years ago today.

The very first Earth Day set aside for nationwide pouring of mankind seeking its own survival first.

Thursday was a nation I events championing the cause of the environment from the streets of New York City for two hours. Fashionable Fifth Avenue was off-limits to automobiles and became a clouded pedestrian mall to 1/6 grade science class in Council Bluffs. I'll uncounted millions to part that first Earth Day, hardly the last we know of no. 20 years later Sunday morning zone. Charles rolled reported on Earth Day, 1990 would like cabinetry about every Tuesday. By the end of the day today but hope to have planted 59,000 trees apology which brings us to today, this 49th birthday focuses on anything plastic pollution, including the estimated 400 billion or more plastic bottles sold worldwide every year, nearly half a century later, the earth still need not just our elegy, but our help and later Chris Polly Pratt saying very well in CIS skepticism and growing personal trust begin. Steve Hartman has found a man who seems to know the answer. No one likes Internet scammers, but here in Ogden, Utah. We found a guy with a most profound distaste just wait till your help 34-year-old Ben Taylor responded to one red message which read, my name is Joel from Liberia, West Africa. I need some assistance from you business or financial assistance that will help empower me which been insincerely responded. How can I help well I want to say how does this whole scam operation work in highly paid people just curious that's going to go down the rabbit hole and save over the tricks that they used to get people and there's no way to test whether rabbit holes though. There's no way I can attest the journey began when Joel and Africa proposed business partnership.

Yes, Bentonville used electronics to someplace New Jersey supposedly electronics would be resold in the profit split Google Earth as part of town are broken down cars all replace Street view even at a cop checking out the joint. Still, Joel insisted he would never take advantage of someone Bible says in Proverbs 22 a good name is better than silver and gold jewelry course that didn't work so he proposed a different partnership. You lied to Joe told him he owned a photography business and could use some pretty pictures. So have a sunset nice library and sunset what you pay him for the good. I like it.

Sure you're just trying to keep busy, so he doesn't rip off some more time others that I could waste less time to spend ripping me or other people off. Eventually Joel sent to sunset photos. We think of something more in their turns out scenic photography could be wasn't exactly Joel's strong suit that could be people not that it mattered great. Good job but I think you need a little bit better camera actually spent 60 bucks to buy mail this shiny red what this is going beyond wasting his time. Now you're wasting your time on investing my money my family thinks I'm crazy when interacting with this guy. Liberia Joel didn't think he was crazy at all.

He wrote, I decided to really commit myself to this business. The pictures you want me to take Ben replied we've got to work on your photography and eventually Joel did get better pretty good which posed a big problem in the work I do know now I got to figure out a way to compensate Joe for these pictures or a scammer.

Well the final copies are in to YouTube to sell a booklet he made using the pictures decoded by the grace of God, a phrase borrowed from Joel's messages plan was to sell a few dozen copies to friends and family until sales exploded from around the world in places I never heard of her punctual book. Soon they raised $1000, then told Joel he could have half the rest will Joel get that to with the catch, then told him he had to donate that $500 to charity and so with that intention in mind then wired the money at this point you need to know $500 is like a year salary Liberia so really ridiculous to expect an unemployed impoverished hustler just give all that money away.

In fact, is better never thought he would until another batch of pictures arrived, there were bags notebooks. He cleaned out the market rented a cab to hold the loot and blessed five schools with abundance Joel seen here with the crown inadvertently overhead turned out to be more Savior than scammer came through your wrong about who showed me that if there is a different side for Ben.

It was such a revelation. He did something he could never imagine just a few months earlier, he traveled to Monrovia library set aside his doubt and distrust and opened his mind to the very real possibility that someone he thought was I know you might actually be a friend to disguise all first thing that I learned was that Joel never saw himself as a scammer that Joel saw his trolling more like a friend search renewing of her friends are we looking for something to give you some money my friend before knowing that somehow you found been on this phone on that dinosaur Facebook on their used to send Facebook messages to strangers, hoping to find some way someone to help them out of poverty. How desperate were you what – 50 because on the farm and I will follow 7 feet.

It keeps things that are going to my go into this and wanting. Unfortunately, I did grace of God, but it never came out all happen now sold nearly 6000 copies, which means this unlikely pair was not come up with a plan for their publishing enterprise wall. Some of the profits will go toward Joel's basic needs like keeping rainout brand-new roof yeah but they decided most of the money should be reinvested in the community. Liberia is one of the poorest nations in the world, half the country survives on less than two dollars a day and because need is everywhere and Joel want to continue helping the most is that the children who got school supplies like more so I did a lot of work to make it happen. Also, granting microloans, young entrepreneurs in Joel's neighborhood. I keep helping him write and hope to do a whole lot more. I want to come back because Ben is no longer the cynic who started all this. That's not me.

I'm changed. I set out to embarrass the guy helping a guy I would much rather continue to help people feel good when you help others.

And as for Joel he says he's changed to that, although he still has to support his wife and seven kids on what most of us spend at Starbucks. They share this area. Yeah Joe says he's okay using much of the money to help others. In fact, he says the opportunity to be charitable, may be the best thing to come from this.

I thought we see giving yet. At one point he sent you $500 and he told you to spend the money, not on yourself but on others. Yes, writing to keep that money is stealing, and not be dishonest when you are to point out oneness… You got me somebody you be a hero conference with the hero. Just because a person is poor doesn't mean they're not rich in character. In fact, many are great humanitarians just waiting on the means of income. Actress Polly Pratt makes me sad to all that it really makes me do this all the time really think she's Sunday morning continues in a moment is licensed doing fine@first place? The answer to Darnell and Sarah's coming. It's Sunday morning on CBS and here again is Jane Hawley for her fans. It's no mystery why Polly Pratt is a star of the TV series NCIS what they may find a bit mysterious is why she's decided to walk away.

Tracy Smith has our Sunday profile. The forensic scientist with a neck tattoo those actress Polly Pratt Goth girl character Abby shootout is one of the best loved crime fighters on TV.

Forensics magician now decided to leave the show and after 15 years. She's having a tough time letting go of it really makes me did you go through that whole grieving process by celebrating every day that I cry in my car every day work some point and I am just as a character. Abby really is something of an institution young female scientist is often the smartest person in the room. Having made science call and television character more than encouraged quality made exciting. She also looks fine with her raven brains and body art.

Of course, not much of it is real. Harry turns out, Polly Pratt is actually a natural blonde, so the signature black hair comes from a bottle and blind roots in the famous neck tattoo is a fake, carefully applied in the makeup trailer before every tape copies all fiction but calling herself nearly became a crimefighter for real. Growing up in Alabama. Polly was fascinated by police work. She studied criminal science in college and then moved to New York City to finish her Masters degree. So you're heading down this criminal science path and bartending to put yourself through school I had overheard across a shipment $3000 commercial was thinking thousand dollars would have 3000 something Walter can contact the actor had come up to me and said director love you cell name walked into his office. I went hey what can contact you love me. Did he ever. Before long, Pratt was doing commercials of around like this print magazine DJ oppositely Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2000, almost famous and three years later she took her place in the NCIS lab black banks and all. She says she's always loved the job but spotlight that goes with it. So Pratt is now divorced and a lot of her free time at her Hollywood home.

These guys what is it about the fame that bothers you money.

It's being a disparity so I think I mean not wrong, but I think that I have earned a little bit of time to myself. Stan church about her love life, no time for me now night on yeah now not all, you've been happier since you figure that out. Delighted this is I ever made my life was the time it took me to go like minutes.

This is silly boyfriend or husband or girlfriend or anything you know ever I want.

I think that is she wasn't kidding about going to church either read is a regular here at Hollywood United Methodist that's her with her friends on Easter Sunday but her celebrity can sometimes be a problem but I gotta say church is not the place to go chase down your favorite celebrity hospitals, bathrooms, churches, not please do not chase down your favorite celebrity place. Of course, that celebrity thing cuts both ways.

Pratt has been able to speak out for a number of causes for child first side prevention among LGBT kids and by her own account, she supported more than two dozen charities personally and financially give any sense of how much money is given away. There's no telling I have a business manager that handles all of my money like any other client.

I have my money because of for instance she's created a scholarship for girls who want to follow in Abby's footsteps and honor of having young women that want to pursue forensics. So in that sense, Abby rather than select Angel that you might say this is her pet charity, the Amanda Foundation Nonprofit Animal Rescue Pl. in Beverly Hills like my reason for living is untrue.

Absolute they like your kids there so totally like that my homeland was about that now that would take me with her at those what makes her happy. Now what comes next is still a mystery work feeling now asking offers Ray. Everyone's so it's the right thing offered being often a lot of conversations and he said home on the couch and really get undisputed big cheese stands alone at the end of the competition. Luke Burbank is driving us to the mood is here at the 2018 cheese monger in the notational in San Francisco or CMIS. It's called the cheese mongers are finishing their written exams starting their taste trials and smell test. You can feel the tension in the room. We want to for your longer: timeout timeout what is the cheese monger you ask. Our job is to introduce Americans to new world of change that they never known before. The people don't walk around with knowledge of, but we stockbroker of dairy expert of technical skills through the judge, jury and executioner of quality. Yeah, sort of right up until that last part. Anyway, cheese mongers, prepare and sell cheese in specialty shops and gourmet grocery stores. You might not of known is that they also take their job very seriously. During CMI cheese mongers from around the country to cut hair cheeses at the highest level. Cheese is a is an everyman food we all love cheese everyone of us lactose intolerant love cheese and and this is the guy behind the whole thing. My name is J must and what I do is live life like a rockstar. By that I mean I'm committed tirelessly to the world specialty cheese Moscowitz grew up around the cheese business but after college didn't want anything to do with it until I met these cheese people was like you were the most incredible people I've ever today. Adam Moscowitz is one of the top fancy food importers in America. What makes a good cheese monger. Their love cheese 11 people for cheese monger Lori Stamm from Vermont that love meant preparing for CMI in a way that could only be described as run SI was in the cave cutting down wheels practicing my quarter pounds and my rat I was visualizing what a perfect way was stamp does a lot of that thinking here this she's just knuckleheads like such a unique texture at Daedalus wineshop market and Wine bar in Burlington Vermont where he works. When did you realize that you love cheese more than the average person. I think it's been building for a long time. I certainly remember in high school really just sort of realizing that I know forgo junk food and know ice cream and potato chips and really allocate all my resources so as it physically highschooler you are spending your extra money on cheese.

Yes, so maybe not the most typical situation. Maybe not, but that early interest cultured a comprehensive knowledge of cheese and the cheesemaking process and here we have deftly the proliferation of some cheese mites, which are these tiny arachnids that we see in almost every agent cave will arachnids like spiders. Yes, very tiny spiders. We could see them with micro are tiny spiders on their tiny spiders. I wouldn't lead with that if you cheese mites are not only harmless and edible, but they actually help aging process of certain types of cheese CMI after eight hours of grueling competition.

The field of dozens of competitors has narrowed to just six and Adam Moscowitz now clad in a cow costume presided over the final-round cheese monger invitational met thousand dollars prize trip to England suspected his peers, but Moscow, earning his beloved cheese mongers a little more respect is just the beginning, which is completely underappreciated talking about employees that make minimum wage in this time of partisan divide yesterday's funeral for former First Lady Barbara Bush attracted mourners from both sides of the political aisle personal remembrance now from historian Douglas Brinkley as America mourns the passing of Barbara Bush, the enforcer of 93-year-old husband George Bush lovingly calls her surprise at home well with national affection and love for her truly is. Many first leaders are respected for spearheading a noble cause Lady Bird Johnson's call for landscape beautification. Nancy Reagan's just say no to drugs crusade and Michelle Obama's call for healthy eating, but to my mind. Barbara Bush's promotion of literacy is perhaps the most enduring of all and I trust this to her argument that if more people could read, write, and I think America would be a far healthier and more prosperous society.

But there was something else about Barbara Bush that with the national psyche. Her unwavering insistence that family and children came first, you must read to your children. The idea was central to her famous Wellesley college commencement address. One of the most memorable ever delivered our success as a society depends not on what happens in the White House, but on what happens inside your house. Here's the back story.

Handful Wellesley seniors protested arguing that Mrs. Bush was notable only because of her husband. That's when the first lady sprang into action. She invited rise of Gorbachev, wife of the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to co-deliver the address with her. Mrs. Bush, this is Gorbachev at her side open by acknowledging that the novelist Alice Walker known for the color purple was the preferred speaker of most Wellesley graduates. Instead, you got me now for the color then all she went on eloquent meditation about diversity, feminism, family literacy, kindness, history, and hope your life you will never regret not having passed one more test winning one more verdict or not. Closing one more deal you will regret time not spent with the husband a child a friend or a parent. Thank you Mrs. Bush for your dignity, no nonsense demeanor civility and all-around largess. May the enforcer always be with us.

I'm Jane Pauley. Thank you for listening and please join us again next Sunday morning with Gary this week. Stephen Long live Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm money list for me to Senate races you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed with Nevada not Georgia. George is right up there, but New Hampshire's surprised New Hampshire people really just kind of don't like you have for more from this week's conversation, follow the take out with Maj. Garrett on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts