Clutter!

[tyred]

I have to move out of my flat at the end of the month and I've been packing stuff up. I didn't realise that I had so much stuff.

The day that I moved in here five years ago I had a large rucksack on my back, a Brompton in my hand and a tiny Peugeot out in the car park. Where has all this other crap came from?

I lived in house shares in Dublin for three years and moved house quite often, usually by bus. I had a rucksack full of clothes, a carrier bag full of books and tapes and radio/cassette player and didn't feel the need for anything else and was perfectly contented! Those were the days

 

[bikingdad90]

Wait till you have a family and have to move an entire house worth of stuff and furniture too! Then you really know how much clutter you have!

Bike stock clear out at bargain prices?

 

[Slick]

Yip, just gets worse the older you get but I reckon moving house is quite cathartic and a good a reason as any for a clear out. I'm moving house again for the 4th time in 7 years and I'm very hopeful this is the last.

 

[Cerdic]

Ha! Amateurs!

Wait till you've lived in the same house for 25 years, then talk to me about accumulating clutter...

 

[Specialeyes]

Lockdown has led us, after 23 years in the house and the eldest back from uni, to realise we need more space and have an extension being built from 1st June. So, I spent last weekend moving crap from house to garage and from garage to Safestore or the charity shop. Suddenly we've got a load of space and wonder whether we need the extension! Holy cow, we've accumulated a lot of... stuff

(We do, if Speshette, 16, grows an inch before her new room is built, she won't fit the bed!)

 

[oldwheels]

I seem to have accumulated a lot of assorted tools over the years.
The house has the usual hand tools like screwdrivers etc tho' these are being superseded nowadays by power tools with multiple functions.
Garden shed has spanners and an assortment of bike spares as well as more power tools.
Boat and motorhome both had sets of emergency tools and my commercial workshop had even more.
I could probably stock a reasonable ironmongers shop if only I could find whatever I am looking for.
With no boat, motorhome or workshop any more they have all gathered in my shed but cannot get round to disposing of them.
My fathers toolbox I seem to remember consisted of a claw hammer and a screwdriver.

 

[Beebo]

I know people who spend £100 a month on storage units just to keep old junk they will never use.
Crazy. But it keeps all these storage warehouses in business.

 

[Cycleops]

Research minimalism. You can survive with remarkably little but most people are acquisitive.

View: https://youtu.be/0Co1Iptd4p4

When you get to your new flat unpack your stuff only as you use it. After a few weeks what’s left in the boxes you can either sell or throw away. That’s the way to declutter.

 

[Drago]

I have more bass guitars than most sensible folk have furniture.

 

[bikingdad90]

I seem to have accumulated a lot of assorted tools over the years.
The house has the usual hand tools like screwdrivers etc tho' these are being superseded nowadays by power tools with multiple functions.
Garden shed has spanners and an assortment of bike spares as well as more power tools.
Boat and motorhome both had sets of emergency tools and my commercial workshop had even more.
I could probably stock a reasonable ironmongers shop if only I could find whatever I am looking for.
With no boat, motorhome or workshop any more they have all gathered in my shed but cannot get round to disposing of them.
My fathers toolbox I seem to remember consisted of a claw hammer and a screwdriver.

I’ve inherited my wife’s grandads garage contents, it has proved to be the best gift ever! I am particularly fond of the tobacco tins which he has filled up with various screws and bolts, they have saved the day on many an occasion. They also smell of tobacco and remind me of her late grandfather everytime I open them.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

We bought progressively bigger houses. My wife & child filled them full of crap. It's a source of enormous upset for me - genuinely so.

 

[fossyant]

Ha! Amateurs!

Wait till you've lived in the same house for 25 years, then talk to me about accumulating clutter...

I have, and I'm not moving ever !

 

[mikeIow]

Research minimalism. You can survive with remarkably little but most people are acquisitive.

View: https://youtu.be/0Co1Iptd4p4

When you get to your new flat unpack your stuff only as you use it. After a few weeks what’s left in the boxes you can either sell or throw away. That’s the way to declutter.

Now watching it on Netflix.....oh boy, that is us: STUFF!!

 

[Blue Hills]

I’ve inherited my wife’s grandads garage contents, it has proved to be the best gift ever! I am particularly fond of the tobacco tins which he has filled up with various screws and bolts, they have saved the day on many an occasion.

Nothing wrong with decluttering but no bolt, screw, nut, washer or whatever should ever be thrown away - even if you haven't the slightest idea what it is.

 

[Brandane]

In my younger adult days I lived in digs and rented accommodation, and like @tyred I used to move house with a couple of suitcases.
Bought my first place at age 26 and sold it 4 years later. The flitting was done, furniture, white goods and all, in 2 Transit vans. That was stressful enough for me and I promised myself never to do it again. Thirty years later and I have kept that promise . Dreading the thought of ever having to move from here, the bikes and associated junk alone will fill those 2 Transit vans .