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The process I used when decuttering was pretty simple:
When you think about how long you will live then how long it takes to read a book, are you ever actually going to read any of your books again? Are you actually going to read half the ones in your 'to be read' pile? Do you need 3000 CDs or do you actually need a Mac Mini with a bunch of MP3s on? Are you ever going to fit into those shirts of optimism? Will that jacket really come back into fashion? Do you need quite so many knackered T-shirts saved for the "when I am doing DIY" drawer? Are you really going to do that sport again? Do you even like riding that bike?
Haha, PREACH my man
Crispin_Glover
My wife and I had 2 flats-worth of stuff and I had both a storage unit and a garage full of more shit when we moved in together to our house. The house is as small as my flat was, but it does have a garage and a loft. We both decluttered a huge amount. All the CDs were ripped and boxed up and put in the garage. Occasionally I take a bunch of them to the charity shop but I can't bear to get rid of them all at once!
I also had my late wife's stuff to get rid of and she was a worse hoarder than me. I sold a number of her expensive items on eBay which made me decide never to sell on eBay again. After selling her large collection of Sindy dolls and her violin at proper auctions for decent money I donated or discarded everything else. A large amount of designer clothes and accessories to the local hospice for their jumble sales; a bunch of her art materials (she was a mosaic artist) to a school. I also drove a van up to Shropshire to collect everything she had kept up there where she had lived half the time. After a day going through all that I threw away absolutely everything. There were boxes and boxes of unopened post!
I had been paying a fortune for the storage unit for years. Apart from some old car magazines and toy cars which I thought would be nice if kept on shelves in the garage I don't think I kept a single thing. I found some boxed crystal wine glasses in there I didn't even know we owned, so I drink wine out of them now. A much more satisfactory use. I got rid of many many clothes and trainers, half my books, a lot of 'just in case it comes in handy' stuff, some bikes, a lot of furniture. Some guitars.
The process I used when decuttering was pretty simple:
When you think about how long you will live then how long it takes to read a book, are you ever actually going to read any of your books again? Are you actually going to read half the ones in your 'to be read' pile? Do you need 3000 CDs or do you actually need a Mac Mini with a bunch of MP3s on? Are you ever going to fit into those shirts of optimism? Will that jacket really come back into fashion? Do you need quite so many knackered T-shirts saved for the "when I am doing DIY" drawer? Are you really going to do that sport again? Do you even like riding that bike?
I kept all the vinyl though. I'm not a philistine.