Ooh pie.

Jars just made me want a pasty. Stoopid London, not being within walking distance.

I'm being draconian in stomping on sentimentality.

My new cleaning phrase is "keeping [x] would put the "mental" in "sentimental."

I am also spending the weekend shoveling crap out of my office so it can get drywalled and painted. Too Much Stuff.

TOO MUCH STUFF!

I've gotten better about purging, but struggle to get it out of the house. Piles of stuff everywhere to mail, sell, donate.

Sean, what's your tag from?

Sean, what's your tag from?

It's from this comic.

Teppy, I hope that you're feeling better. I once asked a friend why he still had naked photos of his exGF who he hated (long story as to how it came up), and essentially he said - 1. It's a naked picture of a girl. 2. It's a naked picture of someone that he had good sex with and 3. He enjoyed that she let him take naked pictures of her.

I advised him that his current GF would not appreciate them, and he should get rid of them. He allowed as to I was right. But I'm not sure that he got rid of them, he might have just hidden them better. @@

Has anyone had any luck in getting a Significant Other to give up his clutter? Much of Hubby's junk actually does trigger memories he wouldn't otherwise be able to access, and he find it an unconscionable waste to get rid of stuff that might be useful. I won't even go into trying to get him to acknowledge that he won't get to the wonderful projects he has in mind for stuff.

Has anyone had any luck in getting a Significant Other to give up his clutter?

Not me actually. But DH had someone else convince him that some of his stuff was too old. So every so often he does go through the computer boxes . and he goes through other stuff occasionally like the tools. and he is way better a getting rid of paper than I am

That's a hard one. The best persuaders, I think, are monetary. Get into how much $ in overhead someone is paying to store something they rarely/never use. My mom is a great organizer...of other people's stuff. She's got a serious clutter problem when it comes to her own, though. I know what it's like because I'm the same way. Since arriving here and doing a little cleaning to make space for myself, I've seen many tools that they have in numbers far past what they need. I've been thinking of taking an inventory just to demonstrate that. There have to be 25 pairs of scissors, 6 Filter Queen vacuum cleaners, etc. Sometimes they get extras because they cannot find the ones they already own. I think once I put it in some terms like that, it might be enough of a nudge to do something about it.

With things that are flat, scan them in and get rid of the originals in all but the most sentimental/value cases. For some things, a picture is enough to trigger memories without having to have the real object.