Hello :)
I've been reading the forum for a while now and finally decided to jump in as well so I figured some kind of introduction might be in order.
I'm 26 and live by myself in southern Finland.
I grew up with parents who are best friends with Justin Case (and live on an old farm) and I used to live with a guy who was a total packrat, which led me to be completely blind to my own stuff.
I think the first uncluttering thoughts started to creep into my mind when the aforementioned guy and I broke up and I moved to live on my own, but in reality very little action took place.
The real light bulb moment for me came about a year ago when I moved to the apartment where I'm living right now. I was moving things I hadn't even touched during the over a year I lived in the previous apartment and I kept staring at things and thinking "Why do I even have this?"
Despite my old apartment being only 24m2 (about 258 square feet) and all of my worldly possessions in the move fitting in three van loads I still had a somewhat slow start to my uncluttering. I just felt way overwhelmed and didn't really know how to get started. It was partially because most of my clutter is teeny tiny knick-knacks but also because I felt like the things around me didn't really represent me and I have been spending a lot of time during last year trying to figure out what kind of a person I really am at the moment (if that makes any sense).
At the moment the uncluttering is going quite well, which is a nice way to start the year :)
