You know its taken a good while to get to this stage, so expect it to take a good while to get to where you are happy with it.
Your wee room? Not a patch on just my wardrobe!!! My wardrobe was so bad I spent a year dressing from a laundry basket.
We have a walk in wardrobe in one of the spare rooms, its big enough to make a small single room. It was so rammed with junk hidden from view that the doors were forced off their runners !!!
Its taken me a year to get the house to some sort of order, still working at it, little and often, and Im becoming more ruthless with every sweep
Little and often. One shelf, one drawer, one chair full of clothes at a time
I pulled out the drawer, tipped out the contents, washed the drawer, then decided what I wanted to use that drawer for. Knickers? I went through every pair, threw the tatty ones, folded the ones I was keeping, put then all back neatly, and that drawer now stays neat, no knickers bulging out the drawer. Anything that wasnt knickers, that I wanted to keep went into a box, till I found them a home. Everything else BINNED. Kitchen drawer - the same. - cutlery - drawer washed, tidy washed, the cutlery was looked at, blunt knives never used, - binned, anything tarnished - Binned . Book case, shelf at a time, had I read the book? will I ever read the book? Do I want to re read the book? - 8 shelves condensed to 3 . Not a book? in the box to find a home.
Linens, I went through the lot, sorted out the stuff that fitted the beds I now have, made up sets, into a pillow case, stacked tidy, bed making is now grab and go. The yellowing stuff, the piles of singles ( all doubles now ) all went
Im now down to a tiny basket of stuff looking a home, mostly what I pick up as I tidy - a sock or slipper under the sofa, nuts and bolts emptied from DH work trousers, coins - little things we put down at our feet instead of putting straight away
All those cables, now in a cable box. Just a cheap cloth storage box, they are rammed in there , a complete tangle, but they are all in one place , in their box, in a cupboard. The cables have a home, they arent traillng across the floor or left on tables. Spare batteries, slung in a tin in the same cupboard as the cables :)
Getting rid of everything that you dont use, no longer fits, you cant bear the sight of ( even if it was a wedding pressie ) get shot of.
I dont live in an show home, I have a cat and dog and we live in the country which is either a dust bowl or mud bath and life really is too short. But its manageable and it no longer stresses me out. Even if Ive only half an hour spare in a day, I can run a hoover over, make the beds and give the bathroom a once over, cos Im not picking up and putting away