LOL! That's been my situation for YEARS! (Did you notice that the acronym is CHAOS? -- Very, very accurate!)
Been either sick (disgusting summer cold that initially disguised itself as allergies) or otherwise distracted (work plus singing on board a couple wonderful ships) from de-cluttering for the past couple weeks, but today Curmudgeon spent the morning in the cellar extricating the copper pipe from the old furnace and he just left to take it to Harding Metals to convert to cash.
Since he was threatening to sell our accumulation of lead type (some purchased along with several small hand presses and some that came with the purchase of a vulcanizer and other rubberstammaking tackle) as scrap, I sent off a couple exploratory emails to local letterpress printers.
And I got a bite immediately!
So what I need to do today (besides go down cellar and get a rough idea of what all I want to sell) is to spiffify the house enough that I won't be totally embarrassed by someone coming in to look at and probably buy the type.
I also spent some time kneeling on the guestroom floor (a major feat in itself) snagging stuff out from under the bed in search of bed linens -- all I found were books (and more books) and back issues of Dirty Linen. And a few small items to get rid of.
But that's the problem! Where do I temporarily store stuff I'm getting rid of without making the place look more cluttered than it already is?!?
I find I get a lot more done if I stay away from the computer...