So, I need to start this by saying I am not the most neat or most organized person on the planet. I am fairly messy and fairly disorganized. But in my youth I used to say that there was an organization to my clutter. I fairly vividly remember being able to find anything of mine in the giant mess that was my room. Right up until I turned 16. Then the superpower started to fade. At present, it is safe to say it is only a fond memory.
I am still messy. I am still disorganized. And now, I am cluttered. I have been trying, without success to declutter for almost 3 years now. Ever since we bought the house. You see, before we could justify hanging onto something because it was always "We might need this when we get a house." We have a house. Have had a house for 3 years. If we haven't needed it, I think it's safe to get rid of it. And yet, the clutter persists.
The more I fight it, the more friends it enlists to the cause. We have cleaned the living room and kitchen no less than three times since Mur and Dig got here. I still cannot walk in either. I know this isn't because we haven't done anything. It is because we have too much stuff. Far too much stuff for our own good. But I don't know where to start cutting back, and I cannot afford to just toss everything out. No matter how much I want to. And days when I trip over things repeatedly, I really, really want to.
Anyway, I'm looking at ideas to help declutter. Not sure any of the ideas online will work. Maybe a few together will. But for how long? They all say you have to treat the cause of the clutter. The source. But finding that cause, the source, in a house of four adults, one toddler and a cat... not so easy. I suppose that means I have a hunt on my hands. To hunt down the source, the headwaters of the clutter river. And then start organizing like mad.
Wish me luck.
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