declutter my room

I should seriously start doing that quickly because I’m about to move and that is an excellent time to get rid of everything I neither need nor love. Where all this stuff came from, I still don’t now – I’m very bad at being portable.

I’m not usually into esoteric self-help books but this one book (something involving “clutter” and “feng shui” in the title, I think) does now seem convincing in retrospect – I’ve begun to throw out more things than I used to and it does feel oddly liberating. I’m getting rid of old magazines that I, if I’m honest, probably won’t ever feel like reading if I haven’t in the last months or years, and of empty cd cases that I’m not really sure what to do with – I suppose it has to do with feeling guilty about throwing out something so new and unscratched and terribly non-recyclable, even if I don’t think I’ll ever need it again. Unfortunately, nobody else wants it, either.

Well, to be honest, I even have a decluttering day-to-day calendar but that has been mostly disappointing: far too much about the cleansing powers of smoke and some weird homeopathic flower solutions sprayed into the air and the tinkling of silver bells driving away bad chi. Thorough spring cleaning seems sufficient for me.
And longer days = more energy and more motivation to clean and start anew.
More sunshine also means that dirty windows become more obvious, now that I think about it.