This todo is now five years old, happy birthday to my very impressive procrastination!
I did make some progress initially, the room was taken up by a big stack of NME and Melody Maker, and they are now all processed and filed (in damp proof plastic boxes in the loft). The other things are still there though, the little side table that I don't need for example. Being a supreme horder though, do I have a plan for that now? What if I got rid of the big old desk instead, and the big old sideboard, and kept that little table? And used the bureau as a desk, for the rare occasions I need to sit down in the study?
Consider this my updated todo for this year!
It's not the only thing making that room a mess to be fair. It's full of bikes and scooters. I did get rid of a couple of scooters from the shed, but this mean temporarily housing the one I have not got rid of in the study. So that can go to the tip at the weekend, no-one wants it. Then if the desk and sideboard go, there is more room for the bikes. Then maybe some wall mounted storage, some big hooks for the bikes? An IKEA hack for hanging the bikes on the ceiling somehow? Some clever hidden storage for the other things? One step at a time...
There are a couple of even big blockers to a hoarder like me. The old TV for one, I paid £2.5k for that, and it sort of works, but how to get rid of it? Then the DVD surround sound (your one you gave me Dad) that mostly works but we now don't need. No-one wants big old lumps of hardware like this unless it has all the latest features.
I will try and re-use the DVD player, see if I can use it without the surround sound. Then the TV? I will freecycle it I think, be strong, just let it go.
Then there are lesser things that I'm just being lazy about. A box of rusty tools? A box of old cables? A box of broken electronic bits that I was definitely going to turn into a robot? Time to take all of this to the tip, be honest with myself. I'm better off buying these things again if I need them I think.
5k: Five kilometres, just over three miles in old money.
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