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Tips to unclutter my place?

TickTockMan

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My place is not really messy, just too full of crap.


Got any tips to unclutter my place beside the basic, "get rid of stuff"?



I am going to check and see if my brother and SiL will let me have a yard sale at their place this spring or summer.
 
Get rid of anything you haven't used in the last three years.....................don't include your dick in that :lol:
 
Move house. I moved three years ago and it forced me to dump or give away piles of stuff.
 
If you have enough shit to have a yard sale, you just have way too much shit.

Organization is everything. But sometimes even having the right amount and the right type of storage isn't enough.

I feel your pain. I have a terrible feeling that we need to do a huge clean-up this year.
 
I have far too much stuff. I sometimes feel like piling it all up, setting it on fire, walking out of my flat and leaving it all behind.. :help:
 
Cormac135 said:
Get rid of anything you haven't used in the last three years.....................don't include your dick in that :lol:
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That was kind of my idea.


PS I recently started using my dick again. It is nice. I missed the little fella.


unloadonme said:
Move house. I moved three years ago and it forced me to dump or give away piles of stuff.
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Can't for a few reasons. One being rents are way too high around here. Another is being disabled I have paid over the years to have things added to my apartment to make my life easier. Also I have no money to move.


rareboy said:
If you have enough shit to have a yard sale, you just have way too much shit.

Organization is everything. But sometimes even having the right amount and the right type of storage isn't enough.

I feel your pain. I have a terrible feeling that we need to do a huge clean-up this year.
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I have been here 13 or 14 years. That is why I got so much crap.
 
Every year, we do a clean house where we pick out everything we haven't used for the last year and donate them to good will. We are determined to live a clutter-free lifestyle.

We have a sedan and a tahoe. I dare say all our worldly possessions could fit in both cars plus a small trailer.

Unfortunately, I can't say the same about my elderly parents. Their house is fairly big and they have filled it up with junk from over the decades.
 
aristomaniac said:
Every year, we do a clean house where we pick out everything we haven't used for the last year and donate them to good will. We are determined to live a clutter-free lifestyle.

We have a sedan and a tahoe. I dare say all our worldly possessions could fit in both cars plus a small trailer.

Unfortunately, I can't say the same about my elderly parents. Their house is fairly big and they have filled it up with junk from over the decades.
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My apartment is about 1,000 sq ft.
 
Don't use bins. It only encourages you to keep things you never use.

Pick one junk drawer in a room and only store things you'll use.

The rest donate. Even if someone gave it to you, don't let it be a burden on you.
 
Since you could use the money, a garage sale sounds like the way you should go. Some things you are holding onto you just need to be ruthless about shedding. Since its a few months until rummage sale season, begin now separating things to sell from things to keep. Ask friends or family to assist with the process, as long as they don't make it more stressful for you. 1,000 square feet must be two bedrooms? If so, you could use one just for saleable items. The things you keep need to go in closets and drawers. Get things out of sight. Is there one type of item you have too much of, like books?
 
My partner is ruthless in shedding possessions. Every 6 months he goes through his wardrobe and whatever items he hasn't worn during that period he decides he no longer wants, and offers them to me, as we're the same size and have pretty much the same taste. The result is that my closet has more of his old clothes than his closet has of his current ones. This is pretty much the norm for me as I was the youngest of three boys and I grew up with hand-me-downs.
 
According to Oprah,
things that you have not use for over 1 year, get rid off it by selling it or what ever to make it gone.

Of course i don't have that discipline to get rid of things easily.
 
Telstra said:
According to Oprah,
things that you have not use for over 1 year, get rid off it by selling it or what ever to make it gone.

Of course i don't have that discipline to get rid of things easily.
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I do. Every year there's a pile of stuff we donate to philly aids thrift. Fortunately he does go through his own clothes. We do use bins, but they're for art supplies and medical, since we haven't replaced the medicine cabinet yet.

I vote yard sale, get you some extra cash. People love rummage sales.
 
Given that it's not going to be yard-sale weather in Oregon for several more months

and that you have the urge to de-clutter now

take as much un-used stuff as possible to Goodwill right now.

I'm confident you will have plenty left over to sell come the sunshine.
 
sixthson said:
Since you could use the money, a garage sale sounds like the way you should go. Some things you are holding onto you just need to be ruthless about shedding. Since its a few months until rummage sale season, begin now separating things to sell from things to keep. Ask friends or family to assist with the process, as long as they don't make it more stressful for you. 1,000 square feet must be two bedrooms? If so, you could use one just for saleable items. The things you keep need to go in closets and drawers. Get things out of sight. Is there one type of item you have too much of, like books?
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Yes I live in a two bedroom.


And no it is not just one thing. It is just crap I have collected over the years. I do have a bunch of unopened toys I would like to get rid of, but I am unsure if I can bring myself to do it. I also have hundreds if not thousands of VHS tapes I am ready to just chuck. They are not worth anything.




Oh I do have a lot of clothes because of when the fat man store went out of business I had money and everything was 50 to 75% off, but I do tend to wear what I bought, just not every month.

Some is dressy, some is for winter, etc.
 
I forgot whidh book it was now...one of the many metaphysical books on my bookshelf....and one of the things that I adopted years ago was this concept to look around you and let go of anything you don't love....

...and my mind played games with me until I told it to STFU and then I tried it...it started out difficult and turned out to be very easy to get rid of the stuff I didn't love.

I do the same thing on the inside...I take everything I believe and put it on the table and get rid of the crap I no longer believe or find not useful......

The effect is the same..in my external environment and internal one....FREEDOM....

Whoever wrote the book and included that was very wise....

I look forward to the purging now...nothing to even think about anymore....it has been a habit for many many years now...
 
eastofeden said:
I forgot whidh book it was now...one of the many metaphysical books on my bookshelf....and one of the things that I adopted years ago was this concept to look around you and let go of anything you don't love....

...and my mind played games with me until I told it to STFU and then I tried it...it started out difficult and turned out to be very easy to get rid of the stuff I didn't love.

I do the same thing on the inside...I take everything I believe and put it on the table and get rid of the crap I no longer believe or find not useful......

The effect is the same..in my external environment and internal one....FREEDOM....

Whoever wrote the book and included that was very wise....

I look forward to the purging now...nothing to even think about anymore....it has been a habit for many many years now...
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I am thinking every thing in my two closets can go. I have not even looked in them in years. I won't miss anything.
 
Can't get rid of unpersonal things, because you have an emotional attachment to it? Take pictures and store them on your hard drive, then donate/sell/dump those items. Convert personal VHS recordings to digital files.

I have a hoarding problem myself and being a visual type of guy that keeps things because they look pretty to me, taking pictures or scanning magazine pages helps me. I still have it's memory and the reason why I liked it, but not the physical item. Get help from a psychiatrist/expert if it's really awful, but don't let them force you into throwing everything right away in the dumpster.

Other suggestions that I've learned from the net:
1) Get rid of one item a day.
2) Get rid of things you haven't used for five years (some say three, others even one).
3) Go full KonMari on your stuff and thank it.
4) Watch hoarder videos on Youtube. Maybe they give you enough motivation that you don't want to end up like that.
 
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