That craigslist link looks awfully like stuff from the "Children of Hoarders" website which is of compulsive hoarders' homes. It concerns me that it was NOT posted by the hoarder, and there are psychological issues involved with clearing other people's stuff. You wouldn't believe how attached to old newspapers and used carrier bags someone can be.
Yesterday I emptied a plastic box, throwing some things away, but mostly refiled them. I mended a hem marker, sort of - the superglue didn't want to stick so it's done with sellotape. I took a load of old National Geographics into the school I used to work at. I emptied a cardboard box, and found a folded one which can also go down to Dad's.
Today I found some more Nat Geogs and took them into school along with an old laptop. I sorted out and got rid of a few Open University texts, but kept too many. Moved them to take less space. These things were in an odd piece of furniture I bought at a secondhand shop ages ago. This consisted, when I bought it, of three boxes with drop front openings and a drawer on top, made of mahogany veneered chipboard. The boxes had been assembled wrongly, so that the doors were flush with the tops, and the previous owner had joined them vertically with a sort of step backwards to allow opening. I redid this, and found that under the drawer was a finished top, so I have the drawer on legs as a dressing table. One of the drop doors had its bracing thing broken off, and today I had to reglue it. This entailed going out to buy new clamps, since my knitting machine G-clamps kept slipping off. When the glue dries, I'll have to drill through a wooden black to add new screws - the old ones had pulled out the board because of the glue, and had to be hacksawed off. I aim to repack the contents so that some of the external stuff is out of sight, as originally intended when I bought the thing. But there is more to throw. Another thing today was a very early draft of something I wrote ages ago - that's gone. I might shred it first.
I have also been decluttering old video tapes - since Dad died I have been recording things, but not watching them, and I am gradually working through "Lark Rise to Candleford" "Secret Army" liberating Brussels, "Ashes to Ashes" and other stuff. The trouble is that even as I watch, I am building up new tapes as I still can't spend the time to watch in order. The person whose house I have worked on is enthusing about "Little Dorrit" but I missed the first episodes because of what was going on, so I can't watch off air. Ho hum.