Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

hypno06

Good luck with the continued unpacking - you will soon be straight, I am sure!

Karmacat

Thats the plan! I think I might allow myself to have .... three .... boxes up in the loft :cool: but no more.

macgirl

We've still got a *few* boxes hanging about but not too many. I gave myself a deadline and listed the boxes on Freecycle, then I HAD to unpack

I think so long as you are doing a bit at a time, then the job will get done. You sound very clear about what you want achieve!

Hope you have a good Sunday

Karmacat

Thats a good idea! Mine was a good idea at the time:o I wanted to leave the living room like a storeroom because clients who temporarily have to walk through it to use the loo don't see it as it will become when its in use - protecting my privacy, see but now the time is drawing close when I'll be turning it into useable space, I have to get going!

macgirl

Babysteps and you will get there

Karmacat

Thanks macgirl - its hard to break old habits. I remember my "not scrabbling any more" post - I've just found some very old beermats - two have dates on them from the 1970s, one has pub addresses on - so I thought, lets check on ebay - hundreds of unsold completed auctions, for 99p and less.... I must not list them!!! Oh dear. Keeping 7. Chucking 2. Thats not good :rotfl:



EDIT - I've done it again, for a toy sewing machine - it *weighs* almost as much as a child :eek: its a Singer - and they do seem to sell, nearly every single one of the completed auctions has sold, so I'll keep it to sell on there on the next free listing day. I felt I *should* love it as a child, because it was obviously such high quality, but I never touched it after the first time, I could never find the bobbin so the stitches never stayed, and at 7, I couldn't work it out on my own I *cannot* have it around any longer :cool:

taxi73

if you unpack one box a day ...you'll soon get there.It's just daunting when it's a lot to do.You do keep some unusual stuff though.

ESA is the new incapacity benefit or sickness benefit as it was known in the old days.

macgirl

Could you not list thing like that on Freecycle or give to a charity shop? (If that's not too painful )

There are certain things I was keeping that had no value in terms of Ebay, but I couldn't throw them away. I knew that if it had value to me, them someone else might feel the same.....

It is hard. But when I'd packed up most of our house before we moved, I realised that hanging onto stuff was wearing me down and I actually felt freer with less. (Having said that, the decluttering ground to a halt when we moved in )

Lula-Hula

Wise words from Macgirl about letting go of stuff that keeps you in limbo.

I used to be a 'sentimental hoarder' but I prefer to 'travel light' these days & the memories havent changed since letting go of the actual items .

I just keep thinking about how little space I'll have when living afloat or on the road - that's enough to scare me into decluttering.

Charity bags that appear on the doormat are now my best friends - I dont even have to take the unwanted goods to the charity shop, thereby saving me money

Karmacat

taxi73 wrote: »

if you unpack one box a day ...you'll soon get there.It's just daunting when it's a lot to do.You do keep some unusual stuff though.

Yes I do

ESA is the new incapacity benefit or sickness benefit as it was known in the old days.

Thanks for that, Taxi.

macgirl wrote: »

Could you not list thing like that on Freecycle or give to a charity shop? (If that's not too painful )

I've given loads and loads to charity shops over the last six months, and quite a lot more onto freecycle - these things don't seem appropriate to those spaces, somehow....

There are certain things I was keeping that had no value in terms of Ebay, but I couldn't throw them away. I knew that if it had value to me, them someone else might feel the same.....

It is hard. But when I'd packed up most of our house before we moved, I realised that hanging onto stuff was wearing me down and I actually felt freer with less. (Having said that, the decluttering ground to a halt when we moved in )

I think I've done a fair bit of that .... but when I started to declutter in the old place, I was really shocked at what I'd kept. Not just from the past - but from craft projects I had that never got off the ground, or my idea of living a self sufficientish life and stuff I'd want then .... having got rid of so much, I do feel so much freer I'm kind of shocked :rotfl:but the reality of living in a smaller house, with much less storage space, is hitting me once again, now that I think of unpacking the remaining dozen or so boxes. Its just the emotional work - I know it needs to be done, I'm just taking my own sweet time doing it :o:o In the old house, I kept imagining my sister having to go through my things after I'd died, like we went through my brother in law's things last year. It was a very helpful image.

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Wise words from Macgirl about letting go of stuff that keeps you in limbo.

I used to be a 'sentimental hoarder' but I prefer to 'travel light' these days & the memories havent changed since letting go of the actual items .

I just keep thinking about how little space I'll have when living afloat or on the road - that's enough to scare me into decluttering.

Thinking about this - you know, I may not want to do *quite* that, but I certainly want to be more mobile - and that means that everything has to be easy to look after. So there needs to be less of this **stuff**.

Charity bags that appear on the doormat are now my best friends - I dont even have to take the unwanted goods to the charity shop, thereby saving me money

There's a stack of books by the front door right now waiting for the next one :rotfl: and my old vacuum cleaner, the one that cuts out all the time, waiting to go to the recycling tip.