Where can you reduce clutter in your life?
I’m really good at decluttering. When my wife died, I had to clear out an incredible amount of clothes, books, furniture, sewing machines, craft items, and fabric. (Hundreds of pounds of fabric…) Then I moved and had to clear a great deal of my stuff from the three story (with basement) brick Victorian. When my fiancée’s ex-husband Igor died, I repeated that process with his stuff: gallons of mead and all the equipment to make it, camping equipment, and a plethora of miscellaneous—which would probably make a good subtitle for this posting.
When I moved, much of my stuff went into a storage unit and only some of it came here. Currently there’s no room for it because, although I’m surrounded by clutter, tripping over and bumping into things constantly, it’s not my clutter. In order to truly de-clutter, someone else has to get rid of things.
And that doesn’t seem likely.
Meanwhile, one area of mine that could use some stripping down are my computer files. Over my computing lifetime I have had a variety of storage devices crash, from hard drives to Syquest drives to other formats no longer supported. I became almost fanatical about backing up and generally have at least three backups of things. My dream is to look at the eight or so external hard drives I have, along with my two laptops, and eliminate some of the duplicates, while simultaneously discovering items that I have no idea still exist.
It’s a dream. The best way to realize this is to put together the workstation my fiancee bought me last Christmas. That could give me the workspace to start that process. Unfortunately, to get to that point, I need to move a bunch of stuff. And that’s a daunting prospect.
That’s where the new workstation would go.
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