When you're having a "de-clutter" are you a ruthless hard man...

In the past I have been a hoarder and kept all of these things that had sentimental value. In the last year or so as I have attempted to de-clutter the house, I have thrown away a lot of these things that were dust collectors or that had not come out of the cupboard for many years. It is not only sentimental things that I have kept either. I have kept leftovers from building projects around the home over the years and I recently filled my car and a trailer with these and took them to the dump. We are selling the house and I figured that if they have not come in handy by now, then they probably will not ever, so out they went! I would like to be more disciplined in this area in future as it was ridiculous how much stuff we had that we did not use. We Freecycled a lot of things too which is good as it saves them from filling up the landfill area.

Oh I am as ruthless as you can be when it comes to de-cluttering. I adore living in an organised minimal space and can't cope with having lots of unused items. I had a Grade A declutter in March when spring came and yet I feel like I'm ready to have another less serious one. I got rid of a lot of stuff on Freegle and others were happy to have my things and the charity shop got plenty of clothes (anything for a good cause). It makes more space for things I love so I am a big fan of de-cluttering on a regular basis.

How ruthless I am depends on the day. The ticket stubs would go. The shells go into a glass dish with some pretty rocks and flattened glass pebbles. I have stuffed toys that someone gave my mom. I hoard tons of pretty pieces of things that I may do something with, though.

I"m a clutterbug, but I really need to get tough too. Too many things...

i'm a bit of a sentimental person. i keep stuff that i think has a values for me like my very first rubber shoes. i held on to it for a while 'til my mom got a hold of it and threw it away cuz it really smelled awful. lol. i also keep my cassette. i have those rage against the machine albums during the peak of their career. their music was leaning more on activism then and i loved it so much. i still have them now from they're debut album to 'the battle of los angeles'. i still have my notebooks when i was in highschool cuz at the back of those notebooks, i usually draw stuff that i think i may have use for in the future cuz i'm planning on being a tattoo artist one day. lol. it's a little off but i think tattoo artists are cool.

i used to keep stuff because of sentimental value but as i grew older it became easier to throw the 'useless' things away. of course there are still some items that i hold on to, things that i may never really get to use someday. it used to be that when i decide to de-clutter i would spend most of the time looking through the stored stuff and recalling the old days. that's why it would take me days and days to finish and i would just end up keeping the stuff. nowadays when i want to get rid of things, i just do; no more sorting, just throw out. i get more done that way :)

I'm try to refrain from buying useless stuff.Then next time when I clean up my house,there will be less things which need to be get rid of.

i'm a bit of a sentimental person. i keep stuff that i think has a value for me like my very first rubber shoes. i held on to it for a while 'til my mom got a hold of it and threw it away cuz it really smelled awful. lol. i also keep my cassette. i have those rage against the machine albums during the peak of their career. their music was leaning more on activism then and i loved it so much. i still have them now from they're debut album to 'the battle of los angeles'. i still have my notebooks when i was in highschool cuz at the back of those notebooks, i usually draw stuff that i think i may have use for in the future cuz i'm planning on being a tattoo artist one day. lol. it's a little off but i think tattoo artists are cool.

I am the sentimental guy who keeps things because of the memories attached to it. I find it really hard to throw away things like presents from pas girlfriends away, I would stash it away somewhere in my room even though I know that I would never ever use it. On deciding what stays and what goes to the trash bin, it really depends on the importance of the thing in question. Like books perhaps, I rarely give away my books especially the ones that are related to my studies. I always see students selling off their books as soon as their semester ends. I like to keep my old books just in case I need to refer to them back. I have to admit I do keep useless stuff though like movie ticket butts or concert ticket butts. I also keep the tickets I have gotten from a trip like train tickets when I went to UK or the museum tickets when I was in South Korea. When it comes to broken stuff, well, I will try to repair them before throwing them away. I have to admit that I have some repairing skills I have gotten from helping m y dad with things at home before. The same goes for old clothes. I usually just keep in them for the 'just in case' reason.

I was a hoarder, a serial hoarder, everything'might come in handy one day', but four years ago we moved from a four bedroomed Victorian house to a park home, I was FORCED to be the ultimate Mr Ruthless!!! Oh and what a job, I had almost 40 years of clutter - I gave a lot of sentimental stuff that I was planning on leaving to my kids to them now, I dumped all my photographs ( piles of them) between my three oldest daughters. I gave loads away, sold loads and after several soul destroying weeks got rid of it all!!