WOW-congrats on the decrapifying!That sounds like a terrific solution with the ebay selling and the money making and the clearing out-kinda like a decrapificationlooza!

what an event!

Moving is always one way of decrapifying,but um I moved and I still have unpacked boxes.In an effort to decrapify,I looked at some posters I hadnt framed,and went to ikea in search of frames,and found the reasons the posters have remained unframed and rolled up in a tube-they werent standard sizes-!!!

BTW_I once cleared a house after my aunt had lived there for 35 years-it took a long,long time,so um-do what you can now-and keep us posted!

WOW-congrats on the decrapifying!That sounds like a terrific solution with the ebay selling and the money making and the clearing out-kinda like a decrapificationlooza!

what an event!

 

Moving is always one way of decrapifying,but um I moved and I still have unpacked boxes.In an effort to decrapify,I looked at some posters I hadnt framed,and went to ikea in search of frames,and found the reasons the posters have remained unframed and rolled up in a tube-they werent standard sizes-!!!

 

BTW_I once cleared a house after my aunt had lived there for 35 years-it took a long,long time,so um-do what you can now-and keep us posted!

One of my favorite things to say is, "You never know how much stuff you have until you have to move." I always start the moving process with the best intentions of getting rid of things, but I give up and start throwing things in boxes.

I also have a couple of poster tubes, but mine lean more toward the kind of posters I hung on my dorm wall. Because, yeah, I'm really going to need that Depeche Mode poster from 1987 with the corners ripped off. (I bet there is some 22 year-old out there somewhere who thinks Depeche Mode is the coolest band ever and would pay dearly for one of their early-ish posters.) (I can wish, right?)

We're making some progress, though. So far we have two U-Haul boxes full just with books and DVDs. But we're starting to do that thing where we hold up a DVD we bought 3 years ago and never watched and say, "Ohhh, but I really did want to watch this one, maybe we should keep it for a while longer..." THAT's what got us into this pickle!

Ah, this blog thing is very handy! And since you graciously (and shockingly!) came to read my blog, I find myself here.

I completely emphathize with your goal to de-stash! I have moved so much in the past few years that most of my excess is passed on to other places but I still have 5 huge tubs full of yarn that I probably have no intention of knitting (because I always buy new yarn, it seems) and we have an excess of dinnerware because my husband is obsessed with having the "right" glass for the right drink.

I am in the process of doing this too - although I did get rid of all the fuschia socks from the Limited circa 1986 a while back. (I had scrunchy socks to match every sweater I bought there, but they bled dye in the laundry like wounded whales every time I washed them! They were the scourge of my entire floor in my dorm - once we all got together and made up one big laundry load of nothing but those evil socks. But I digress.)

I have hit a bit of a wall - cleaned out most everything but my own clothes and shoes, and I am having the worst time getting rid of things. Let me know if you come up with any tricks that work for you, and congrats on the home detox

Wow. What a great project. The mention of VHS tapes reminds me that I need to do the same thing as well.