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Jan. 3rd, 2015 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psipsyBig Cleanup is technically underway. With the first 3 days of my break taken up by Christmas stuff, that leaves 9 days. With that much time, one would think there would be plenty of progress. There was some, but it's not as significant as I would have liked.
It's frustrating. It's frustrating to not see immediate results, even though I know I'm putting stuff away, sorting out trash/recyclables, and moving larger low-need items to storage. If I showed you a picture of the interior of my home, and then a picture of what I have in storage from the same day, you'd wonder where I had it all in the first place before I had storage. Even I can't figure out how I had it all in here.
Why am I putting low-need items in storage instead of selling them? Because while I don't need them now (more like can't use them due to space constraints), I expect to be able to use them when I move into a bigger place. It'll be cool when that happens.
Someday I'll have the room for these things. Room for a big train layout, for building bigger and more elaborate Lego creations, for a big-screen TV to watch anime on, for putting on display all the anime figures, room where I can assemble/repair/tinker without using the kitchen table as a workbench, room where I can do my own car repairs indoors (I've looked into the price of pole buildings and 2-post lifts and it's feasible). Room for all of my big ideas.
Why do I have so much stuff in the first place? Good question. Some people are fine with the absolute minimum of possessions and I do see the appeal in that. I guess I'm in the crowd that just likes to have stuff for whatever reason. Maybe because I just think it's cool to have (anime figures), or I see a use for it (tools & gadgets), or sometimes there are a lot of memories attached to something. There's also the lingering trait from when I was younger, where my family wasn't well-off, and back then when we got something we were KEEPING it because the odds of getting another of whatever it is was slim to none. One and done was the rule.
Oh, I try to not think of myself as a hoarder. I have standards and limits. Things do get thrown away or recycled. My main problem is that I don't condense things as well as I could, I get lazy and not put things away, and that's part of what this indoor adventure is about.
Back to the grind.
It's frustrating. It's frustrating to not see immediate results, even though I know I'm putting stuff away, sorting out trash/recyclables, and moving larger low-need items to storage. If I showed you a picture of the interior of my home, and then a picture of what I have in storage from the same day, you'd wonder where I had it all in the first place before I had storage. Even I can't figure out how I had it all in here.
Why am I putting low-need items in storage instead of selling them? Because while I don't need them now (more like can't use them due to space constraints), I expect to be able to use them when I move into a bigger place. It'll be cool when that happens.
Someday I'll have the room for these things. Room for a big train layout, for building bigger and more elaborate Lego creations, for a big-screen TV to watch anime on, for putting on display all the anime figures, room where I can assemble/repair/tinker without using the kitchen table as a workbench, room where I can do my own car repairs indoors (I've looked into the price of pole buildings and 2-post lifts and it's feasible). Room for all of my big ideas.
Why do I have so much stuff in the first place? Good question. Some people are fine with the absolute minimum of possessions and I do see the appeal in that. I guess I'm in the crowd that just likes to have stuff for whatever reason. Maybe because I just think it's cool to have (anime figures), or I see a use for it (tools & gadgets), or sometimes there are a lot of memories attached to something. There's also the lingering trait from when I was younger, where my family wasn't well-off, and back then when we got something we were KEEPING it because the odds of getting another of whatever it is was slim to none. One and done was the rule.
Oh, I try to not think of myself as a hoarder. I have standards and limits. Things do get thrown away or recycled. My main problem is that I don't condense things as well as I could, I get lazy and not put things away, and that's part of what this indoor adventure is about.
Back to the grind.
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Date: 2015-01-06 01:56 pm (UTC)Y'know, because CO. And get yourself one of them there detectors for your home and garage/workshop.
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Date: 2015-01-07 08:45 am (UTC)Many garages have a system set up where any cars that are indoors have tubes attached to the exhaust, and the tubes carry that shit outside through a hole in the wall. I was thinking of something like that, mostly because if the weather is overly hot or cold, everything in the garage gets hot or cold, which would defeat the purpose. That and even if a door is open, CO can find low spots to hang around in.
I already have a CO detector up and running here. If I really want to be clever, I could get a CO detector that would automatically trigger something to open or a big fan to turn on. And what happened to Mom's neighbor comes to mind easily in this regard.