Well, the first phase of spring cleaning is done, and I can once again see the surfaces of my kitchen table and bedroom desk. Huh, I guess it *is* wood…
Although I did throw out a few bags full of junk in the process, most of this was unfortunately accomplished by simple relocation of items. I’ve long since passed the point of having more ‘stuff’ than ‘room for stuff.’ What I still have to do, and this is always the hardest part, is to go through and actually throw items out.
There’s a large dictionary on my bookshelf that consumes a lot of space that could be taken up by other books that I use more often. Who uses paper dictionaries nowadays anyway, when it’s far easier to just plug ‘m-w.com’ into the address bar, or install some browser extension. But…it was given to me by my parents over 20 years ago, and was one of those first early bits of encouragement. How do you throw that away? But damn, it’s big and heavy…
Have you considered putting things in storage?
It’s mainly a lot of little things. Hard to find spots for in a small apartment, but not enough to be worth the hassle of moving to storage.
Yeah, I hear you about not wanting to get rid of stuff. I hate throwing things away. When I moved from place to place back in my ‘I’m going to move place to place’ phase, I used to have this cardboard box that was nothing but old papers, letters, and just.. stuff. Of all kinds. I never got rid of it. It just kept going with me place to place, heh.