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20 Sep 10 Clean Out: Week 10 & Retrospective
Tenth and final week of my official “decluttering challenge”. This is what’s going this week. Slightly less than some other weeks, but I think I’ve done well so far.
In addition to what is pictured above, I might be able to sell off a Nintendo Wii, PSP, Apple Time Capsule and four quite large books before next week is up, so that’s money in the bank and less stuff. I’ve gotten rid of a lot of junk to the point where my apartment is looking very neat all the time with a minimum of effort, as I don’t have stuff cluttering up the place all the time.
I’ll try to keep getting rid of stuff: I own a Kindle, so most of my books are going, though I’ll sell and donate them away rather than wholesale throw them away. Same thing goes for a large amounts of DVD’s.
End Result?
So what’s the actual end result of all this? Well, if you discount the obvious things that go with a home (furniture, kitchenware and utensils etc) and the books and DVD’s I have already marked for giving/selling away, I would venture to guess that I may only own somewhere in the region of 100-150 “things”. In effect, if the proverbial shit hit the fan, I could probably fit most of it into a backpack and two other bags. Not exactly “minimalist” if you buy into the gospel, but that was never my goal in the first place: the goal was decluttering to the point where I was down to the things that mattered.
A lot of my “stuff stress” is now gone, and I feel much freer, being able to move should I want to without having to worry too much about removal and storage.
