Progress in the war against clutter

The box­es are los­ing and the piles are winning.

I broke down a cou­ple more box­es. Most of these are going right to recy­cling, as they’ve been in enough moves that I don’t think they’ll sur­vive anoth­er. There’s also the issue of space and I don’t real­ly have any place to store card­board, even fold­ed up. That’s kind of scary.

But with the help of The Con­tain­er Store and Elfa stuff, I’ve now got most of my CDs stored under my bed and more stuff in my clos­et than I thought pos­si­ble. I’m con­sid­er­ing tear­ing down some of the exist­ing shelv­ing and putting up new shelves… espe­cial­ly on one of the walls where the braces weren’t screwed in to the studs and I real­ly don’t trust the shelves to car­ry any load.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly the more box­es get emp­tied, the more mis­cel­la­neous crap I have in piles that I’ll have to deal with at some point. But it’s an ongo­ing process and I’ve made some damn good head­way on final­ly being “moved in”.

I don’t think I’m in dan­ger of near­ing “faux zen sim­plic­i­ty” any­time this decade, but I would­n’t mind approach­ing semi-orderly.