unclutter | Decluttering While Preparing to Move

I finally made the hard decision that it is time to sell my house and move closer to my son. Part of the prep is serious decluttering for a big downsize. Don’t know yet where I’ll be living after the move, but it will definitely be smaller.

Right now I am concentrating on two rather emotional tasks: curating thousands of family photos and also sorting through all my fanzines to see which are keepers and which can be released. Hope to scan a few of my favorite zines but doing it large scale won’t happen (I have maybe 150 zines).

Today I worked on the photo project and started a trash bag of discarded photos. It seems like taking photos goes in spurts and so many photos are of the same occasion and are nearly duplicates.

I also finagled my little old desktop scanner to work with Windows 11 and managed to scan one zine for posterity. At some point I’ll try to find the discards a new fannish home.

Oh, this is going to be such a long and tedious process. But at least it is very good motivation for clearing out a lot of stuff!

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We’re also discussing moving. We don’t have any ’zines or much else to scan, but have also gone through quite a few photos.

Moving and preparing to move is a big job and I wish you the best on that journey.

Family photos are so so hard! I'm not as ruthless as I should be, but have made progress on the zine front!

Your icon is awesome - 'you are not alone'. So appropriate for many situations.

Decluttering While Preparing to Move

Good luck.

Re: Good luck.