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Do you live in clutter or are you minimalist?

Minimalist or clutter filled house?

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i have to shuffle and side step around me bed room cos its got two mountain bikes in one corner, an old wheel, a handful of tyres, in another coner is riding gear.

in another corner is random boxes and bags for when i go away or for when i move out. my desk is full of random stuff.
 
I'm forever throwing things away, but I live in a small flat.

I hate clutter though and I'm always putting things away in cupboards, sometimes buying more cupboards to put things into.
 
I have loads of stuff but I can't bring myself to chuck out books. Books are my friends, my history. I re-read all my books anyway.

Clothes, yeah, I can chuck them. One of my mates has come out as a cross dresser and he is my size, so he's gone off with tons of clothes, makeup samples, bath gift sets, magazines...absolutely thrilled.

The only bad thing is how much better lots of it looks on him.
 
Iemanja said:
I hate clutter though and I'm always putting things away in cupboards, sometimes buying more cupboards to put things into.
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Do you put the cupboards in other cupboards? Then buy more cupboards to put those in?

I think you need to lay off the cupboards man, you're developing a habit.

:cool:
 
Spring cleaning, clutter, pogofish, feng shui related thread bump ^

I really need to pull my finger out on this :(
 
I'm a minimalist but also a bit of a slob. I have few possessions, just haphazardly strewn about the place.
 
Mrs. S☼I's plan is to get the house far more clutter-free over Easter. Ruthless in binning stuff. Sticking as much as possible to keeping things as close as possible to where they're used, i.e. house keys on a hook by the door rather than down the back of a radiator where The Girl has dropped them, and the key that opens the electric meter box in the garage rather than on the bathroom windowsill. Stuff like that.
 
I have piles

and piles

and clutter ....

I was recently at a friends mums house, everything in it was as clean as if it was new and there was not a scrap of paper in the whole house. Amazing and about as opposite to me as it is possible to be.
 
I am a terrible terrible hoarder. Pathalogical case. It'll be towers of old newspapers in my old age.
 
I have a minimalist house, one sofa, one chair a sideboard, a dresser, and that's about all. But everyone of the few surfaces is full of crap. I haven't taken the Xmas tree down, for example. There are books everywhere, DVD's, marked exam papers etc.
 
I hate clutter but I'm a hoarder and each time I feel proud of myself for chucking stuff out, something appears to replace it :mad:
 
zenie said:
It does sound nice...I do need to do something similar. I fear for my books and shoes :eek: :(
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Books and DVDs are really my downfall.
Have so many of the DVDs on hard drives now and 95% of the books never get touched.
It is still hard though :(
 
If I'd responded to this thread back in 2006 when it was started (and when Trashy was clearing stuff out for the baby!) then I would have responded that yes, I did live in clutter. Since then my GF's moved out and my flat is really rather tidy.

I've also made sure to give my mother back the crap she occasionally deposits here; she actually hides stuff under the sofa and behind cupboards. After I did a big clean out of my bedroom I found something like 16 bin-bags worth of clothes still with the labels on that she'd bought for my daughter and been too ashamed to give to her, because they were a) hideous and b) completely the wrong size. Also lots of single sheets in a house that has no single beds. Now I check as she's leaving the house and give it straight back.

So basically I've discovered that I'm fairly tidy - it's everyone else around me who's not.
 
i decluttered a few months back before i went on my travels. i probably still have well over 100 things though, cos i still have clothes and still have about 50 odd books left. My entire posessions fit into 2 big rucksacks, a suitcase and an underbed plastic container. oh, and i have a bike too.
 
I don't like clutter but this room is chock full mainly because three people live in it, and it is an office as well as a bedroom, nursery and CD storage unit!

I think we haven't got enough cupboards or storage space really.
 
When I first came to uni in Leeds from London I had one rucksack of clothes and a duvet cos I'd just got off the streets and sleeping on mates floors. The car got broke into within 20 mins of getting to Leeds (stopped to ask directions!) and some cunt nicked every possession I had in the world. I literally had the clothes I stood up in. I cried then got over it and it was kinda symbolic fresh start but I had to sleep under my bed in the student flats at first and steal more clothes. The kids now mean I have quite a lot of shit, but I still tidy and clean everyday.
 
I have a lot of stuff but not many clothes and shoes for a girl.
As Badgers said it is mainly DVDs. CDs and books. Oh and small found animals :o
He actually has more clothes and shoes than me atm I think ;)

Bs dad is terrible for giving us huge bags of stuff from boot-fairs that we can hardly get home let alone find a place for with no storage in the house.
There has been some winner books though. Really old rare stuff.
 
Try to keep the kitchen clean every day (dirty kitchen is horrid) and the living room tidy-ish.
There are 3 adults living here so it gets a bit tricky.
 
I've been de-cluttering for the last two days. Something to do with the sun reaching into corners of unsorted stuff.

eta, four adults here and one Labrador and a cat.
 
We have too much stuff, I am a hoarder....but I love clutter and though sometimes I get angry by how messy it can make the house look I wouldn't really have it any other way :o:)
 
I am ridiculously sentimental though. I still have my Granny's address book somewhere and she's been dead for over 20 years :o
 
I have nearly no stuff, and the Mr hasn't got all that much (bar the tools and such like), everything has to be pretty tidy with living in a small space, but it can also get *very* cluttered quite fast as two people doing all their living, cooking, etc in a 16ftx7ft box is always going to be a challenge.

Fortunately Mr _it is a dab hand at building and rebuilding cupboards and the like so when it gets really bad he rips stuff out and adds in extra shelves and stuff where needed.

I live in fear of ending up like my mum as she seems unable to chuck out *anything* and constantly has to sort through stuff and pay for storage etc, only for the stuff to apparently multiply if anything.
 
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