Comment on Realistcly how much can be cleaned out of a house, as a child of a hourder?
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 6 days ago
If you don’t want/can’t move start with a space that is your space. Define some boundaries to the hoard.
Then organize your clutter into things you use and things you would use.
Then use your storage to put away all the stuff that you use.
Then in the clutter pile organize that again into “things i can’t get again” and “stuff that easily available”
Then the hard part: throw out the “stuff that is easily available”
You can’t have organizational boundaries as such so you are not willing to let some stuff go. It is hard.
But if you don’t want to move out make a space as your fight back against the clutter there first. If you can do that you can do another room. And then another.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I understand hoarding is a condition and it’s not so simple but for me what works is being fast and not thinking too much.
I don’t hoard but I have a LOT of stuff for arts and crafts (which does look like hoarding simetimes) and I get new hobbies and more stuff all the time. What I do when things start to not fit is, just look at stuff and, if I haven’t use it for a long time I throw into a box. Close the box and get rid of it. everything in the same day. If it takes too long I’ll get lazy and If I think too much I’ll keep everything.