De-clutter ( Archived) (17)

Seems u tube and shows are filled with ways to clean up your home. Some ideas are good, some are whatever and then there are the hoarders where a herd of people do ALL the work. Dont I wish. Of course, they charge and who really wants strangers rooting in your house.
the best hint I see is to just do a bit every day. Don't make it work. Grab that item and actually go to the other room and actually put it away. Or do a few minutes and quit.
Of course, have to have room in THAT room to stick it.
I am at the age of give it up. Grab that dress out of closet or dressing room. Try it on. Now pretend I am going to town..do I want to wear it. NO! then dump it!!! Getting rid of office proper..it was for office. Tolerable only and practical. Those hot summer slacks..wear them around the house. Why save them?
I have spent the last couple days on kitchen junk drawer. Took it all out and put in shopping sack. Got containers and laid them in drawer. And sorting as I feel like it. ALL the batteries in one box. Not jammed into a mess. All the tacks ON cardboard and in one bag. All glues together. No more hunt, no more trying to level the mess to get drawer closed. Sack is almost empty. And some went in trash.
I know lots of my stuff, no one else will want. And I havent looked at for years. Decades? So time to get rid of. And label the antiques with history and value.
Now...will that junk drawer stay neat. Only the Shadow knows..

I have never needed to De-Clutter..I'm very everything has it's place..When I open any cupboard in my home nothing falls to the floor..I would love to De-Clutter peoples homes..I love housework & things like that..Before lockdown I enjoyed cleaning up my girlfriends home..It's like she has no clue & I enjoy doing that

One problem is owning a farm with multiple buildings. Never know what you will need so keep it all. Now farms are rarer and in the mega corporate form, no good auctions anymore. Used to go to one and the selections went back 3 generations or more. I always got ticked at bidding for a tool I needed and losing to some ^&% who wanted to mount it on their rec wall.
My other problem is having my stuff, parents stuff when they passed, in law when he passed and tenant when he was killed and family said nope.
Plus doing it all alone and having to drive miles to a charity to take it.
I treated myself to a Christmas present one winter. Called a guy and he agreed to bring me a dumpster for $100 for the winter. He left it on the trailer cause afraid it would fall apart. Said set metal stuff in front of trailer, no charge that way. My winter sports was dumpster toss.
I went on deck and flung. Those moth eaten wool coats you cant donate, can't burn, can't recycle. The old ripped clothes and blankets. He finally came to get it in May that summer and I heard he scrapped the dumpster too.
Now I rent a small dumpster. To get rid of trash I have to pay for it too and haul 15 miles or more cross country.
I saw a video on Ghana. We send tons of clothes to Africa thinking they want them. They have buyer who buy huge pallets, sight unseen. Sort through and people, mostly women fight over the good clothes. Charities send junk. Some of them dont even try to sell, just dump in lots to buyers. The clothes that are trash go into ditches, ocean, rivers, gutters and fill mountains of land fill.
So people donate here thinking someone will get a cheap wearable garment. Or get rid of trash. Instead it goes straight to lots. Or sits in Goodwill with a price poor cant afford because it is now a corporation after profits while using non-profit tax loop holes. Go to a charity resale and pay $7 for worn jeans. Or farm store or Wally and pay 10 for brand new.
Problem with the world is the corporate push..consume consume,,buy buy buy. Follow the trend! Spend $850 on your kid to go back to school when school supplies the pens and paper. ARGH!!! OFF soapbox!!!!