You could have a car boot and sell most of it.
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You could have a car boot and sell most of it.
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Oh yeah, physically getting rid of it would be easy enough in practice, I mean more the idea of getting rid of stuff that you have spent years acquiring/collecting, you would never see a fraction of what was spent by selling it and in many ways its obsolete but there is still some kind of attachment to it in a strange way I think.
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What I did was made a spreadsheet of all my music albums, movies and books. Once done, I separated them into piles:
Start with Movies:
Pile A: Stuff on Netflix, iTunes etc. - This stuff you don't need, this is available to you for a cheap $ per month. Sell this stuff, or if you can't sell it, donate it.
Pile B: Collectors stuff or stuff that isn't online. If you do want to keep them, show them off in style, or sell them to a collector if you feel that they don't work for you anymore.
Pile C: The stuff that means something to you. Like for me, I have a book that my mum gave me. Have read it so many times but gives me so much value I am keeping it.
The thing you have there is; you are holding onto the idea of you have spent so much money on "stuff." and you are keeping it because of that. What you should be asking yourself is: Does it still bring meaning and joy? Remember, forget the money part. You have already spent the money so the money is gone, only the item remains.
The hardest part is moving past the idea of keeping it. Once you have sold, donated, binned etc. the first one, it will change and be easier. Trust me. I collected a lot of Star Trek stuff over the years that gathered dust after I got it. Once it was gone, my memory of it is still there and the money I got from it helped me take my wife down the aisle. stuff < marriage in my case.
You have already taken the first step by saying "I would feel better with the extra space." Think about it.
I feel like I am preaching... Sorry!
Okay I drive a Skoda Yeti, but I have and use driving gloves because I don't want further damage to my skin.
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Excellent post and great advice, I think I will give this a try, thanks!
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What's the opposite of minimalist. My wife is in that category.
Caporegime
Hoarder?
I recently sold a room full of books, cd's and dvd's to the various online sites which buy them and made several hundred pounds. They don't all offer the same price for each, so it's worth licking two or three sites, download their app and scan everything to find the optimum price. They only pay a very small amount per item but it soon adds up and if you have enough they collect it for free.
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I cleared out the wardrobe a few weeks ago of things I don't wear, leaving me with not much. I then went and bought 5 x t-shirts in the same colour as my day to day wear. I have a couple nicer pieces to wear still and a few work shirts. I guess the benefit of working from home is not having to have a wardrobe full of work clothes. I also bought 4 x the same gym t-shirts.
Watched the trailer and her voice was so annoying that I decided not to bother watching it.
I've heard a few people go on about this recently, apparently it's worth a watch.
Watched the trailer and her voice was so annoying that I decided not to bother watching it.
Would recommend it, managed to make my wardrobe so tidy and efficient I can't believe I've not done some of these changes before!
Yep, pretty much the same method in the books.
Recently decluttered my phone home screen to reduce the number of distractions. Just the essentials on the home screen now, everything else is on another screen in a folder. Adding friction is a good idea to help cut down on wasted time in unnecessary apps.
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My gf watched this, now folds all the clothes differently and has been going through thousands of paper photographs!
It's amazing how much space you can save with the different methods of keeping clothes folded/organized.