I can throw away the majority of what I have, but getting to that point is always the kicker for me. I come from a family of hoarders dating back to the great depression, the habits of my grandparents having to make do with anything they had and keeping what they did til it was beyond useless ingrained in my head. I'm of the throw it in a box and get to it later mindset. It takes the oddest things, like topics in a forum I lurk in or something randomly pissing me off to go into a cleaning frenzy, trashing stuff I couldn't get rid of a month ago. It's hard for me to do, but as long as I make progress and throw away something and the boxes get smaller and fewer in number I'm ok with it. It's one of my habits I can only slowly change but having been in my current abode for so long and getting ready to leave it has got me in the trashing mood more often then not.
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