My ex left me in September, and I've been "spring" cleaning, since. Still much to do, but it's coming along. I have purged so much stuff that was just taking up valuable space, I think I'm single handedly supplying the local Goodwill.

Trying but with roommates and their stuff running out of space in my house to store stuff. Have three sizes in my closet - 8 to 12 -currently in the middle. Had a drastic 50 lb weight loss when I was sick -could happen again - afraid to give anything away.

I follow the advice of the book "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing," by Marie Condo.

She says to put everything of the same category in one pile..like all the pencils and pens, all the wrapping paper, all the scissors, etc. Then go through them and select most of them to give away. Only keep or two of each type thing, and only things that, when you pick it up, it brings you joy.

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If your not sure keep it. Once it's gone, that's it.

For me "spring cleaning" consists of collecting from the yard: multiple bags of lawn clippings and gravel from the street/church's parking left in snowbanks on my yard to melt - forming piles of salty sand, uncovering roses packed in leaves so they don't freeze. Then changing a dozen storm windows into screens, sweeping the patios, hanging laundry on the line and opening up the house to get fresh air in but there is still snow on the ground and I haven't shoveled my backyard sidewalk to the clothesline. Also, the current temperature is 25F.

If Spring cleaning is purging unwanted, or no longer needed items. I have a about a dozen hobbies that include fine and rough carpentry, stained glass, electronics, optics, mechanics, home theater, etc. etc. As a result of all these hobbies I often re-purpose things: for example in my theater, the largest sub-woofer (the size of a washing machine) includes 2" thick wood laminate wood harvested from a no longer needed conference table, Sadly the double garage only has room for one car as it is filled with tools and wood. All ten closets are filled to capacity and one of my four extra bedrooms (converted into an office/computer room) has become cluttered with paperwork and electronics. I really need to "spring clean" as no single person needs two motorcycles, two cars, two snowblowers, a half dozen computers etc. and yes, I give away a lot of stuff away.

It is Autumn in Australia, but, yes I am doing a seasonal clean, just finished. About 5 years ago I downsized dramatically, yes, there are things I often wish I still had.

I am. I’m going to need a bigger garbage bag!!! ?

I am but it's more like I'm wanting to sell the house so all this has to go! I'm only taking one small trailer with me and that is probably including my mini horse. Some things are really hard to sell!

I don't have much space so keeping loads of crud isn't really an option. But photos from my marriage are in a box, the girls might like them and as I tell my daughter it wasn't all crap, well not at the start anyway. As for clothes, if it hasn't been worn in a year it gets tossed, either out or to a charity shop. Music stays, can throw that out.

I don't have much space so keeping loads of crud isn't really an option. But photos from my marriage are in a box, the girls might like them and as I tell my daughter it wasn't all crap, well not at the start anyway. As for clothes, if it hasn't been worn in a year it gets tossed, either out or to a charity shop. Music stays, can't throw that out.

I tend to nothing on a schedule. Spring cleaning makes as much sense as New Years resolutions. Why does it have to be spring, when there are so many much more fun things to do? The warmer weather is great for going hiking, playing outside, motorcycle or bicycle rides, visiting friends and any number of things much more fun than tortureing yourself about what to throw out, what to keep, cleaning every speck of dust, given that with spring pollen, most of it will be back with a vengence within a few days anyway. If you have to pick a season to clean, do it in the winter when you are stuck inside anyway on cold dreary days.

Well considering I had 9 live Boer goats in the basement this winter and then it flooded. I think I will have no trouble deciding what to throw out from that mess!