A Clear Out

Because of the bad weather yesterday, I decided not to go out but instead have a bit of a sort out.  After Christmas and a birthday the shelves and cupboards were looking very cramped and full.  So a sort out and declutter  were in order.  Believe it or not I have cassette tapes going back to the year dot!  I no longer use a cassette player (who does?) and so decided to get rid of them.  The charity shop in our street no longer takes tapes as they can't sell them and so it was in the bin with them ... ... except some that have a particular memory or special meaning for me and so are really hard to get rid of.  There were some of a very young Glen Campbell and does anyone remember Marty Robbins?  One tape was music of favourite films of the time - The Magnificent Seven, The Way We Were, Goldfinger, Lawrence of Arabia, A Summer Place ... ... Such memories of times long gone.

Apart from tapes I had a load of books that I had read and re-read I don't know how many times and they were taking up a lot of shelf space.  Now of course with Kindle and ebooks, again things have changed and the big, bulky and sometimes heavy books are no longer needed.  

How is it that cupboards seem to get cluttered with ornaments that never see the light of day?  I seem to be a magnet for knick-knacks that I don't use and they get pushed in a drawer or to the back of a cupboard.  Well, they are no more.  The snow is beginning to go and so this morning I bundled up those things I never use and took them up the street to the charity shop.  Ahh!!  That feels better!



It's amazing how good a clear out can make you feel.  It's almost a relief to get rid of things that you no longer use, want or need.  The house looks cleaner somehow with a bit more space.  The shelves aren't so cluttered and I can actually see what's in the cupboards.  I've been doing that with my own personal life and thoughts lately also.  I've mentally thrown a lot of old stuff out that was cluttering up my mind in order to move on and taking on board things that are more relevant to me now.  Some memories are, of course, very important to me and so I hold on to those.  They have had an influence on me and have made me the person I am but other things could hold me back in my onward journey in life.  I have changed my way of thinking about a number of things.  Who knows I might get round to blogging about them some day.