Whitney Houston Dead at 48
2/11/12 at 8:20 EST. Just in, breaking news. Whitney Houston dead at age 48. According to TMZ sources, Houston died at the Beverly Hilton hotel.
A police crime lab vehicle was seen outside the hotel just moments ago . Houston is survived by her daughter Bobbi Kristina.
TMZ has learned that No illegal drugs have been found in the hotel room where Whitney Houston died — at least not yet — but prescription drugs were present, and it’s possible the singer drowned in the bathtub..
Sources tell us … when EMTs arrived Whitney’s body was already removed from the bathtub so it will take an autopsy to determine if she OD’d, drowned or died from some other cause.
Informed sources tell us … Beverly Hills cops — who were still searching the room at the time this story was posted — found various pill bottles. There was no evidence that Whitney was drinking alcohol in the room.
Whitney’s body was just removed from the room on a gurney. It will go to the morgue for an autopsy to determine cause of death.
Houston was set to appear in this year’s “Sparkle,” a remake of the 1976 hit, which was loosely based on the story of The Supremes. It was her first movie role since 1996′s “The Preacher’s Wife.”
More information to come as it is released.
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If you have to get rid of things to make room in your home, things in storage are less valuable and less used than things in your living room or kitchen.
To keep yourself from going up and down the stairs as you declutter, make sure you have boxes for give away, keep, belonging to someone else and a bag for trash.
First, go through things not in boxes. These things have not been stored properly and may not even be useful now. You didn’t care enough about the object to keep it free from dust. Do you really still need it in your home?
Move on to the boxes not labeled. These are boxes you may not have opened for years. They are MISC. Go through them quickly getting rid of the obvious clutter. Consolidate what you can.
Go through seasonal as you put away the decorations each time. You’ll find you may not need 8 boxes of Christmas decorations. Just think what you could store in that space that you may use more than once a year.
Memorabilia is often the hardest. Photograph what you can. Or put them in scrapbooks. Decide how much of your present space you are willing to give to your past. 3 boxes? 5 boxes? Give yourself a limit. Keep a couple baby dresses, but not a whole wardrobe. Other children could be wearing them now if you give them away or sell them. Same with toys. You can hang memorabilia on walls. If it’s important to you, you may want to find a way to display it.
If you are storing your grown children’s stuff, it’s time to pick up the phone and have them get their stuff, if possible.
Don’t buy new storage boxes and shelving until you declutter. You may not need them after all.
Label any boxes you are keeping and keep like together ie gardening, memorabilia, holiday, camping, clothes, and tools.
I love using the basement as overflow storage. Things like cookie cutters, canning equipment and the yogurt maker can be stored there to free up room in the kitchen. Craft supplies stored in the basement can bring room to an office. Out of season clothing can be stored to make room in your closet and dressers.
But you can only do that, if you have purged the storage area of clutter you don’t like, will never use and is not in good shape anymore. 
