I've lived under mountains of crap for years. Not mine, my OH's. He cannot let anything go.
Defunct tech is a thing - obsolete things like video players, film cameras, analogue TV sets from 30 years ago, mini disc stuff, video cameras, digital cameras, palm top personal organisers, film editing and projecting kit, old mobiles, reel to reel tape players, etc - anything we now do with our phones. But still the kit stays.
Things that don't work - we have literally a stack of 8 kackered dvd players/hard drive recorders under the TV table gathering dust duvets.
Boxes and piles of media we don't watch/listen to - 45, 33, 78 records, cassettes, CDs, videos, dvds, 8mm film, colour slides, photos - again, we watch, listen & create on phones & computers now.
And packaging - every laptop, every camera etc came in a box. With polystyrene. And the boxes are … still here.
It's like tech Time Team here - open a box and decades and strata of obsolete media stuff stares back.
It's not only the piles, the dust and the overwhelm it's also the guilt - all those memories locked up in that unprepossessing tech. Family, youth, people now gone, achievements and experiences, things we loved back in the day. But not part of our lives today.
And the cost. How much money is represented by all that stuff. I know about the sunk cost fallacy but I still resent it.
I would like to hire a skip.
Well, that's how my mood often descends. But then I remind myself that a few years back I discovered the 365 day challenge - and started. Then I found Konmari - and continued.
The secret is taking photos of each room 'before', and every pile, bag, big thing that leaves the house.
And when I look at how far I've come and how much better things really are than they were, I get renewed energy to face the stuff. I can do this, because I've already done loads.
What's your journey?