recent items gone

[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

[nanila]

Congratulations!

I always find sub-dividing the big jobs is the most difficult part of uncluttering. One shelf at a time in the linen cupboard, perhaps? I apply that approach - one pile at a time - to my desk when the piles of paper get unmanageable. The goal, eventually, is to get good enough at organising it that the piles don't form in the first place. But that's been the goal for over a decade so I'm not sure it's ever going to happen...

[fred_mouse]

I'm not yet at the sub-dividing point - the garage is full of a mix of things we have already agreed to get rid of, and working out what to do with them is the problem, and things that we use rarely, or which were put in boxes during sections of renovations, so need opening up and working on. Basically, tasks that take much more oomph than I have available at the moment - so 'go in the garage' is my current decluttering goal, because then things might bubble to the top of the list as do-able chunks, at which point I can sub-divide to 'that pile' or 'that box'.

So, for example, today I identified a cd of exam music from two years ago, and that has gone. And now I know that there is a box with a handful of cds, and thus can go an look in it each day, if only I have the oomph to go out there. But other than that box, I can't work out where to start!