I cleared off enough of the dining room table so we could eat tonight, and the table is pointed in a different direction than before, but there is an amazing amount of stuff in that room that needs to come out. How could I have held on to all of that for so long? And there are so many gadgets (my own, not my father's!) that are still in boxes because I never use them. If they're a pain to clean, I never use them more than once or twice. So they have to go. Tomorrow morning I'll take a box of gadgets out to the garage, along with at least one set of wooden kitchen shelves (they don't really fit). Looks like I'm going to have to do a garage sale of my own after all. The neighbor's event last weekend was just scratching the surface. This time, I'll put it in the paper myself. And I need to get back to donations again, I've slacked off there.

Up to now, I look around here and see that this decluttering is still cherry picking. The easy stuff. It's getting out the things that are in the way that are durable and family related are what I have to work on. Next month. Real sorting and discarding, to the bone.

SRS