The magic of tidying

I love this thread @Dimity and am so grateful to you for having the initiative to start it.

I have scaled back my grand plan for decluttering to a more manageable daily schedule minutes per day eg today was 3 minutes. Tomorrow will be 4 and so on each month,

You have to start somewhere @Eve7 . I started with 8 items/day...

This is on my bucket list @Dimity to

I tend to stop and start @Eve7 . Today I dealt with papers, mostly charity circulars and advertising flyers. I need to clear a working space again for sorting. Do you have much to contend with?

I moved from a very big home to a small duplex and I need to get rid of a lot more stuff @Dimity

Everywhere I look there is clutter but I’ll get there.

I have sent my snow dome collection to Lifeline

Sometimes it's hard to let go of collections we're emotionally invested in. You did well to release that space @Eve7 . Marie Kondo leaves bric-a-brac and memorabilia we're attached to til last.

Ì hope the downsizing and move are working out well for you and you're enjoying the new neighbourhood.

Thanks @Former-Member you have some great strategies for keeping up with it all. Staying active and in the moment rather than disconnecting might be a key takeaway. The routine seems important. When I'm not coping I can let things slide and not really notice what needs doing. So getting into good habits is the answer. I'm working on it!

Thanks for your support.

I like to tidy when in the mood. And have been very much in a decluttering phrase the last year or so. It amazing what we can actually live without. I am a bit sentimental... and do keep things and am thankful we have a big garage to store crates in. But every now and then I like to go through it all and cull stuff.
my mum is a terrible hoarder! And I think my daughter is too.

@Bow at least with the garage you don't need offsite storage. I have a lot of books in storage.

My cat is thwarting some of my tidying efforts. He knocks things off the coffee table and cleared a space for himself on my desk by pushing off my laptop and working papers.

My sister is a hoarder and continues to buy large items. I'm not sure if it runs in families. At one stage my parents lived across 2 houses yet still had a garage full of my grandmother's stuff.