Minimize my stuff

- go through & throw out all my old magazines
- clean out my wardrobe
- sort out my jewelry
- sort out all the drawers full of paperwork
- as for the rest of my stuff: figure out what I don’t need anymore and get rid of it.

I’ve put most of my stuff in storage at my mother’s place and only brought a minimum with me to Melbourne. I managed to whittle the pile down with the garage sale and giving things away but I could still do with getting rid of more. It will mostly have to wait until I have a bigger place or go back up to Brisbane at some stage. I’ve had a few boxes sent down and I’m going through those. The big challenge at the moment is not adding too much more stuff because my hoarding ways don’t seem to have abated. I also badly need furniture to store my stuff in, so at the moment it seems like I have a lot more than I do.

I’m having a joint garage sale with a friend in a week, and I’ve organised to store some stuff I don’t need right now at my mother’s place so I need to get cracking with the sorting. My mother will be over tomorrow so I want to have at least some stuff ready to give her by then. I don’t want to store too much stuff, so I’ll have to be ruthless and give preference to the garage sale pile.

I’m tired of boxes. They don’t seem to diminish. I want to put them all in a pile and burn them. I don’t have enough time to go through all this stuff. How did I get so much stuff?

I have a room full of boxes. I’ve given away and thrown away tonnes of stuff and I still have a room full of boxes. I need to go through it all again and be ruthless. I just have too much stuff I don’t need. I want to at least halve it before I move again in a few months.

Slowly slowly go the boxes. I’ve managed to give away a bunch of books and videos and now I’ve stalled again. I have far too many pieces of paper. I want to get rid of this stuff so I can leave but it all has to be sorted through and it’s so hard once you look at everything individually to actually make decisions.

Most of my stuff is unboxed and sorted but by now I need to go for a resort to minimise again. I want to streamline things so that when I do move again it will be easier, and also just to declutter my life. I have lots of cool things, but there’s only so much stuff you really need.

The stuff sifting is going very very slowly. I think I need to be locked in a room with all the stuff and no computer or PS2 or DVDs. CDs, ok. Problem is, in amongst the stuff are books and other distracting things. Damn it. It must be done.

I’m still living in a sea of boxes. I really need to sort out my stuff!