How do we collect so much junk? I’m starting to get overwhelmed by the amount of stuff in my little house. I can hardly see the surface of the kitchen table with the amount of notebooks and brochures and notes and receipts on it-it’s a mess.
So where to start?
What do I keep, what do I dump? One needs to be in a completely unsentimental kind of mood to get rid of everything, otherwise it’s a waste of time. Some days that’s hard though…cinema stubs, boarding passes, receipts from special dinners…things I’m never going to go look at twice but I feel funny about dumping them too. Am I the only one who hangs on to this stuff?
Maybe I should ask someone else to do it for me. Problem solved!
Tell yourself that you are emigrating to Australia via Ryanair and have to pay excess, as you do, for every bag you take!
By: Grannymar on 05/07/2009
at 8:43 am
If you are saving all these little bits and pieces, I fear for your future! Speaking as a pack rat who doesn’t happen to save such bits and pieces and is overwhelmed.
I’d suggest a scrapbook for the bits and a file for what’s necessary and the bin for the rest, sentimental or not.
By: Jeannie on 05/07/2009
at 11:22 am
I’m just like you Whoopsadaisy. Started to de-clutter last night too, and it’s just daunting!
By: Claire on 05/07/2009
at 2:13 pm
Dump it all. Memories are much better than receipts.
By: Holemaster on 05/07/2009
at 3:57 pm
Tá mé uafásach, freisin. I’m hiring out a skip in two week to alleviate my problem. I probably won’t know what to chuck.
By: schwangelfernoxxelstein on 06/07/2009
at 4:21 pm
I know, I’m moving house at the minute and I’m throwing out things I’ve been dragging with me from house to house (but never using) for years.
By: gerard McKeown on 06/07/2009
at 10:53 pm
@Grannymar I could do that alright…my housemate not so much though!
@Jeannie I don’t normally save so much, so much as leave it lying around and then have to throw it all out or stick it in my memory box under the bed. I feel a major clearout in my not too distant future though!
@Claire, I know you have to be in the right mood or you’ll get rid of nowt
@Holemaster – interesting, just read a similar point of view with regard to photographs in a book I’m reading.
@Schwang will you fill the skip? Can I throw my stuff in it? Probably a bit far to go for a skip though!
@Gerard eek I dread the day I have to move house and look at all the crap I have accumulated, especially stuff stored in the attic where I can pretend it doesn’t exist
By: whoopsadaisy on 07/07/2009
at 10:05 am
I’m a big hoarder too. Have every personal letter I’ve received in the post ever, I keep all sorts of shite, and i’m a total e-hoarder, never delete anything. Wouldn’t know where to start.
By: milanadenauer on 08/07/2009
at 1:09 pm
Whoopsadaisy, I’m sorry but there’ll be no room at the (b)inn. I’ve a shed and it’s contents to get rid of (except for the lawn-mower) but if I start on the house first, that stuff won’t even make it…
By: schwangelfernoxxelstein on 08/07/2009
at 6:56 pm
Let a friend in there. Let them be brutal. Just fire it all in the bin. if there’s anything you really really want to keep set it aside.
I try tdo it when I can but I’ve still loads os crap. At the end of the day its just stuff. It means nothing in the big scheme of things.
By: Lottie on 09/07/2009
at 6:08 pm