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

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Those do sound like daunting tasks but now that you've made the decision, you're motivated to get on with it (that's great!).

It seems like taking photos goes in spurts and so many photos are of the same occasion and are nearly duplicates.

I also found this to be true. I've got the family photos down to one medium size box. Good luck to you!

[corvidology]

If you don't know anyone personally to give your fanzines, you might consider one of the many library collections across the country.

This is one of the first to get started:

https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/resources/zineresources/

[fred_mouse]

Well done for getting started early on tasks that are going to be emotional and exhausting.

Good luck.

[sisterofbloomerjunior]

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.