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unclutterHi there. I'm Waldo. I've been in my current apartment for 8 years and I realized that there are boxes in my house that I haven't opened *since I moved in*. Yeah...
1-in-1-out won't do beans for me. I really need to be 1-in-10-out at least, to make a hole in my 'stuff'. I have a tendency to go, "but that's perfectly usable" and hang onto things I don't actually need. I don't think I've reached hoarding levels - I'm not keeping things like toilet paper rolls or the cups from pudding snacks or anything, but there's other stuff that builds up like craft supplies for that thing I was going to make six years ago and never got to.
Today I cleared out the boxes and accumulated piles in front of the book cases in the living room. I have two bags of trash that have gone out and two more ready to go and two bags of donations just from that. I also went through the piles of DVDs that needed to be sorted and refiled and found about three or four dozen disks of stuff that I had recorded off t.v., but have since bought the pro-disks for and trashed the recorded ones.
One of my issues I have is that I live on the 4th floor of a walk-up apartment building and making trips down to the trash, especially in the winter, is hell on my asthma. I need to really, really dedicate myself to leaving out the back door any time I'm leaving with a free hand to grab a bag of trash.
1-in-1-out won't do beans for me. I really need to be 1-in-10-out at least, to make a hole in my 'stuff'. I have a tendency to go, "but that's perfectly usable" and hang onto things I don't actually need. I don't think I've reached hoarding levels - I'm not keeping things like toilet paper rolls or the cups from pudding snacks or anything, but there's other stuff that builds up like craft supplies for that thing I was going to make six years ago and never got to.
Today I cleared out the boxes and accumulated piles in front of the book cases in the living room. I have two bags of trash that have gone out and two more ready to go and two bags of donations just from that. I also went through the piles of DVDs that needed to be sorted and refiled and found about three or four dozen disks of stuff that I had recorded off t.v., but have since bought the pro-disks for and trashed the recorded ones.
One of my issues I have is that I live on the 4th floor of a walk-up apartment building and making trips down to the trash, especially in the winter, is hell on my asthma. I need to really, really dedicate myself to leaving out the back door any time I'm leaving with a free hand to grab a bag of trash.
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Date: 2011-01-02 11:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-02 11:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-02 11:24 pm (UTC)And then I find that I keep going, and have lots of days where I'm able to get rid of lots, and that overall, my housekeeping got better.
Good luck, and welcome! It sounds like you got off to a great start today!