ERD50
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
One shelf is not a lot of stuff, and it is just not enough to feel much change. Get radical! Frank and I both think it really feels great to be so free and unencumbered, and so far we haven't missed any of the junk that we no longer have.
Yeah, I know. But doing more than a shelf at a time drives me bonkers. Part of my ADD-like tendencies I guess. I can rarely read a book either, gotta stick to magazines and articles.
Nothing wrong with whittling down from 5 boxes to 2. The key is to do that as your first stage, revisit the area in 6 months and you will wonder why on earth you kept any of it.
I find the more you sort in one sitting the easier it becomes to just toss it all out.
Don't even worry about having a project for the space, you would not believe the sense of joy we get from gazing at an empty space that was once consumed by junk.
Yes, but I do a lot of DIY stuff. I actually do find a use for stuff that I kept for 10 years once in a while. And it will end up being when the stores are closed and it's an emergency fix. That makes it hard to throw stuff out just because I have not used it for 6 months. That's why I need more motivation than others I guess. Like I said earlier, I might sort it all out and decide I only need 3 of something, not 10. That takes a lot of time, and I end up with the 2 boxes instead of 5 or whatever.
Maybe that's it, most of what I keep isn't 'junk', I really do find a use for much of it. And the time it takes to separate out 'junk' from potentially useful stuff is just too hard for me.
-ERD50