Anyone else decluttering?

I've been trying to declutter a bit too. A couple of months ago I went thru the back bedroom that holds all my bookshelves, frestanding linen closet and a bunch of other stuff. I set a bunch of stuff out by the road to give away and collected some of the older hou-to books and took them to the transfer station paper recycling. Don't worry, those how-to books were old computer books like DOS, Windows 3.1 so I'm sure no one would ever have need for them.

I got that room to the point that I can actually walk around it again. But there is still plenty to go. I need to clean off the shelf above my computer desk too. I mean Access 2007 and Sharepoint 2010 aren't exactly cutting edge technology anymore

I also got some tool boxes to store all my Ryobi tools and gadgets. The basement shelves were overflowing. I've made some room and now most of my indoor Ryobi stiff is in one pile of boxes. I definitely need to go thru all of the old paint cans and dry up what I can (for taking to the transfer station), and hold the oil-based for taking to hazardous waste day (which is 1x/year).
The areas I've worked in are much better than before, but if anyone came and saw those rooms, they would have no inkling I'd even touched them

 

I need to.

 

Trying myself but never seems to go as planned. I will just keep working at it little by little.

 

It's a work in progress. I try to put a little extra crap in the bin on garbage day.

 

I began actively cutting back intake of 'things' a few years ago. I do occasionally purge things, but am whittling it down to things that are useful and valuable, but have not been useful to me for some time. There are also the 'future things' that are collected. Things meant for future projects that may or may not ever see liftoff. The cutting back on intake has helped a bit. I've turned down a lot of free stuff past few years. I have been tenatively working on reorganizing my 'firearm/hunting related things' which are quite a lot of my clutter. Noticed recently that my woods working tools and co have been piling up. Lots of spares, extras. So when I puruse all my junk...I see a bunch of great camping gear that hasn't been used in years, I see hunting clothes and accessories that are only used occasionally, I see new clothing items still unworn (I'm that kinda guy...if I find pants/shirts I like...I get some extras and put them up for later), I see a cornicopia of 'nicnacks' and small items of all sorts, I see power tools that batteries are not made for anymore, I see a 'car care' set of shelves with all manner of polishes, waxes, cleaners and lubricants (have purged this before), I see stock motorcycle and buggy parts that were removed and replaced with aftermarket, I see old bedsheet sets that need to be cut into rags. Other than that stuff I'm in good shape.

Honestly, a friend of mine kinda woke me up on the topic of 'collecting'. Watching his pile of things amass to incredible levels and seeing the impending and ongoing headaches associated with caught my attention. It doesn't seem like he owns all that stuff, but rather it owns him.

 

We declutter every year or so. It's quick and easy because we don't like clutter. We just offed a whole bunch of kitchen items we never use.

 

My problem is I save too many building materials. If I save this 2 by 2 piece of plywood I might not need to buy one some day.
Multiply this by other lumber, sheet rock, various fasteners, etc.

 

Give them to SKEETER , he'll probably wear them out. LOL

 

To late lol. Nephew took them all.

 

She might get rid of the big George foreman next. She only uses it for bacon but I've started cooking it (bacon) in the traeger to keep the mess outside. Now I have that SnS grills 1/2 moon cast iron griddle / drip pan to try cooking bacon over charcoal too If I like.

 

We have a few things I know we have to get rid of.
Old dinnerware has to go from the shelf of hardly / if ever used shelf. I think there might even be a Geo Foreman grill there too.
This thread has me thinking about maybe doing some decluttering as well.

Bacon , Since I have the blackstone griddle there is no turning back. I can throw on a whole pound and by the time I get the last slice on the first is about ready to flip. I "love " that thing! and no mess inside! There is a little clean-up so it doesn't rust but well worth it.
Now I want a BLT!

 

I want to know why I load my truck bed up with Goodwill stuff or garbage every two months there are no open areas at the house yet. Its like it avalanche from everywhere else

 

I did that with a bunch of stuff in 2007-2009. During my divorce to Wife#1.

I made the dumb mistake of tossing complete sets of primary and secondary needles as well as jets for the Rochester Quadrajet carbs…

next up were complete sets of weights and springs for Delco HEI distributors…

while I wholeheartedly support decluttering, don’t be dumb about some things.

 

My wife has said that maybe we need a Blackstone. I kinda agree. Lol. Problem is I'm going to run out of deck space.

 

I think decluttering should be an ongoing process. It was one of the projects I hoped to do during retirement. Now that I have been retired for almost a year, I find that I haven't progressed at all with this project. Maybe the new year.

 

I am constantly trying to declutter but my wife packs new stuff back in & them constantly wants to reorganize the house.

Then babbles about wanting to live in a tiny house.