Decluttering While Preparing to Move

[vysila]

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!

Comments

[vysila]

Motivation and energy, that's what it takes, all right! Fingers crossed I can keep up momentum.

Wow, that is spectacular that you got your family photos down to just one box. I need to emulate you! How long did it take you to go through that process?

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you. It was part of many-week Marie Kondo decluttering campaign I did a few years ago, but I think the photos took a long weekend (working on nothing else, mind you). I made some very hard rules, for example, no duplicates, no negatives, no photos without people, no photos where I don't anybody in the photo, no photos of people I don't like, etc.

[vysila]

Those are good rules. I must keep them in mind as I work on my own project.