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[fred_mouse]

I'm being a bit haphazard in decluttering at the moment - when it occurs to me, I look around where I am, and try and find something. This is unfortunately not a good choice for me, because all I see is a sea of Stuff, none of which is identifiable as clutter, and so I keep ending up in denial about being able to do anything.

What I have managed to deal with

• broken popcorn popper (electrical) - I now have a working microwave method, no need for fixing the unfixable.
• one set of small-child appropriate bedding (not quite gone - have put it on a mailing list looking for a home)
• one random baby blanket of unknown provenance (ones where we know which kid it was for, and who made it, fine, but this one???)
• jumper from the 'returns' shelf that none of our friends would claim has now gone to op-shop. 

Areas that could do with more attention - the linen cupboard (do we really need four hot water bottles?), the music room (is there still a desk under that pile? Can I rehome that unloved computer than I assembled myself in 1999?), and the garage. 

Comments

[tanaqui]

Well done on still making progress while feeling haphazard.

Maybe for the music room or garage, you could draw up a list of categories of the kind of things that are in there and then each day choose a category and find 5 or 10 things that you can get rid of? (Even if that's 10 sheets of paper....) But it might help to do the thinking "in advance", as it were, so you don't have the issue of walking in and not knowing where to start/what to do?

Anyway, good luck with making progress in May!

[fred_mouse]

thank you!

I could certainly do categories, but at the moment I'm so much in the 'cannot deal' that I'm getting analysis paralysis, and having to stop. The plan is to go in to the garage each day, and see what I find. I've learnt from past attempts that the first few times I won't see anything, and then I'll find one thing, and then suddenly there will be a jump in what I'm looking at, and clarity will set in, at which point it becomes easier to work out What Next.