Slightly more organised

[vilakins]

I am soooo tired--physically. I've been reorganising and cleaning and tidying after Greg finally got rid of some of his hoarded junk: 6 cubic metres of it. I reckon there's another three to go, but at last the piles of DVDs and books are now off the floor and tables and onto the newly-cleared shelves. I haven't sorted them at all; that comes later

Comments

[jthijsen]

If you're bad at reorganising, try doing it a bit at a time. Start in the first cluttered corner that catches your eye and clear that away. Don't think about the rest yet, you're working on that one corner first. Then, when it's done, step back and enjoy the little bit of tidyness you've just created. Then, when you feel up to it, start over with another pile of clutter. Repeat whenever you feel up to it.

It may take a while this way, but if you do this at least once every day, you'll find it won't take you more than a few weeks (a month, tops) to get your entire house reorganised and mostly clutter free (a little clutter is unavoidable, you're still living there, you know).

I try doing this once a year and my rule for throwing things out is: if I haven't so much as touched it for more than a year and it isn't there to look pretty, it goes into the garbage or to a recycling center. This includes technical stuff and clothes and on occasion even books. In all the years I've been doing this, I've found that only twice have I thrown something away that I then later needed. And since those things weren't very expensive, I felt that the lack of clutter totally justified the very minimal expense of buying the stuff again.

[vilakins]

That's easy when you live alone. I used to be very tidy! But when you have nowhere to put the clutter because the shelves and cupboards are full of junk belonging to someone else, that's a problem, and it was mine for the last couple of years. :-(

[entropy_house]

*nods* Mom wouldn't let any of her *garbage* go out, and neither would Ken. I didn't see any point in throwing out and clearing out my own stuff, because the moment I did, they'd move their junk into the clear patches.

[vilakins]

Ah yes. And into the kitchen and anywhere with space. :-(

[entropy_house]

*nods* It's *SO* much easier when you know that blank space will stay blank.

[jthijsen]

Very true. I think I'd get into a big fight with those litterbugs. I'd probably wind up either throwing away junk behind their backs or moving out.