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Kirsten and I accomplished a great deal today. A bag of teddy bears that were just taking up space and an old, but serviceable TV were dropped off at Goodwill, we recycled about twenty bucks worth of cans, dropped off three boxes of books and DVDs at BookBuyers for evaluation (Kirsten is going back later to pick up our cash/credit and any rejected titles) and had lunch.
The de-cluttering is going slowly, but I was never rushing this in the first place. The entryway is mostly clean, you can sit on the futon again, and many large bags of garbage have gone downstairs. It's really amazing how liberating this is. for example, I haven't actually gamed in years. But culling my RPG collection has left me with only the items I'm actually interested in playing, so my level of desire to start a new game has increased. One of the rules in It's All Too Much! is that a collection that cannot be displayed and admired is not a collection, but clutter. Today, the various toy motorcycles I've received for winter gifts are proudly lined up on the window sill to be seen.
Just getting started on each stage can be good. Pulling that first book off the shelf and putting it in the box was hard. but i looked at it, realized that it was a gift that I had read once, six years ago, and all it was doing was taking up space. After that, with a good idea of my criteria for staying firmly in mind, it became easier to cull the bookshelf in the living room and fill two boxes with books that I was never really going to read again and had no real desire to keep. Same for the DVDs. We went through and looked at each one and asked if we were honestly ever going to watch it again.
The next goals are finishing up the storage rack in the entry way (the remaining RPG stuff needs to be properly organized), doing the finishing touches on cleaning there, and then nuking the garbage attractor that is our dining table.
The de-cluttering is going slowly, but I was never rushing this in the first place. The entryway is mostly clean, you can sit on the futon again, and many large bags of garbage have gone downstairs. It's really amazing how liberating this is. for example, I haven't actually gamed in years. But culling my RPG collection has left me with only the items I'm actually interested in playing, so my level of desire to start a new game has increased. One of the rules in It's All Too Much! is that a collection that cannot be displayed and admired is not a collection, but clutter. Today, the various toy motorcycles I've received for winter gifts are proudly lined up on the window sill to be seen.
Just getting started on each stage can be good. Pulling that first book off the shelf and putting it in the box was hard. but i looked at it, realized that it was a gift that I had read once, six years ago, and all it was doing was taking up space. After that, with a good idea of my criteria for staying firmly in mind, it became easier to cull the bookshelf in the living room and fill two boxes with books that I was never really going to read again and had no real desire to keep. Same for the DVDs. We went through and looked at each one and asked if we were honestly ever going to watch it again.
The next goals are finishing up the storage rack in the entry way (the remaining RPG stuff needs to be properly organized), doing the finishing touches on cleaning there, and then nuking the garbage attractor that is our dining table.
