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bandicoot
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welcome!
you have found the right place!

i agree with themusiclivez and jay eff.
the money has already been spent. it has gone. kiss it goodbye and move on with your life.
get rid of the clutter and find some part time work.
MUCH easier than trying to sell a mountain of little bits of clutter.
when the stuff has gone, you will recover your energy and joy and be able to breathe again and make decisions and do things.

i don't blame you one bit for not feeing able to get started with ebay.....i sold two expensive things online earlier this year and it was crazy-making.
i don't know how people ebay for a living!
it would require a 9-5 focus and discipline.

i second third fourth brooks palmer...blog and book.
he rocks, totally.

Posted 11 months ago #
needtocleanhouse
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Has anyone read _Clutter Busting_ - it has good reviews on Amazon

Posted 11 months ago #
wannabfree
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I read all of 2008 posts from Brooks Palmer, he is amazing! Wish I lived in Chicago.I am going to read all his blog posts & then get his book too. Also last night I cleaned off my desk area which is in my kitchen. It is a hard area...its an accumulation of stuff from when we clean or pick up the house that we have no idea what to do with so it goes there. I decided to focus only on it, not stop & do laundry in between or dishes because this too makes me feel like I have so much to do. Of course I did have do keep tending to the kids:) I broke the PILE into sub piles. I tried to really focus on the over whelmimg issue as it seems to be my biggest problem. So I tried to make it easier on myself. After I grouped into sub piles/like items, etc. I ONLY looked at & addressed each small pile on its own. I would look at trash items first as that was easy & made the pile smaller. I also tried to think about what ends up in that problem zone. Alot of items were broke items that needed super gluing but I had no idea where the super glue was:) So I found the super glue & repaired a bunch of items. I still have some more stuff to finish today but it was a start. I am not saying I am cured by far but I am trying to learn about the problem & hopefully work through solving it. Reading the blog makes me reaffirm that my clutter problem is morethan just having a bunch of stuff around, its a deep rooted issue that needs problem solving in order to fix. I absolutely love this forum & will use this place as a tool to help daily. Thank you all so much!

Posted 11 months ago #
needtocleanhouse
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@sannabefree: wow, I applaud you for doing so much! Congratulations!

Posted 11 months ago #
Lori Paximadis
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That's fantastic! Keep at it, and you'll see real progress in no time.

And I'm with the others who have said the money has already been spent on the things you own, and it's gone. You have to let go of the idea that your piles = money. I realized years ago that unless something has a resale value of $30 or more, it really isn't worth my time and energy to try to sell it. It sounds like you might have enough critical mass to have one massive yard sale, then just donate the leftovers and take the tax deduction. People I know who sell on eBay say it has been getting harder and harder to sell there, and that the buyer traffic isn't anywhere near what it used to be. Wipe the slate clean and start fresh. It's a scary step, but it will feel great once you're past it.

Posted 11 months ago #
camellia tree
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wannabfree, sounds like you are off to a great start. Just one more thing I wanted to add. I started declutting around January 2010 and that summer I took a week off of work just to work on decluttering my basement. People thought I was crazy but as someone who works full time, when else was I going to do it? I was able to make a huge dent in the basement in that week, and addressed the worst of things. It's still a work in progress, but MUCH better than it was before, and by taking care of the worst problems it somehow made it easier to take care of little things here and there on evenings and weekends. I bring this up because it sounds like you might start having more time when your kids go back to school, but may get a job when they do. If there's any way to set aside some time after the kids go back to school and before you start working, it might allow you some uninterrupted uncluttering time.

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