Clearing Mental Space for 2011

I’ve spent about 3 weeks now clearing out my home.  Getting rid of unused and unwanted items.  Either selling or recycling items that I’ve been telling myself I’m going to use, but haven’t.  I threw out two big trash bags of toys and other stuff from the kids room and they don’t even know it’s gone.  I threw out/sold/free-cycled almost 6x that much of my stuff and if you asked me what I got rid of, I couldn’t event recall an item.

I also am in the process of clearing out my cyber space content.  Deleting blogs I haven’t used in years and those that no longer serve me going forward.  You may say why worry about things in cyber space? Especially stuff that you don’t use.  Just don’t log on and forget about it.  Well, I find that easier said than done.  “Hanging chads” clutter my brain, and in freeing up physical capacity, I free up excess capacity as well.

I find that most people have more stuff than they need, and while most people are a far cry from people on the show Hoarders; we tend to have the same tendencies to accumulate stuff event when not needed.

If your home and mind is full of clutter I challenge you to clean house.  Start with one room or even a closet and work your way until you’ve decluttered your home and mind.

Here are some great sites to unload of your stuff

1. Ebay.com. Great way to sell items that you don’t want.  Now though Jan 15th, pay no listing fees.  Which means that if an item doesn’t sell, you haven’t lost a dime.

2. Freecycle.org  This is a great way to unload of stuff rather quickly.  While you don’t get paid for your wares, you can be rid of many items very fast.  Check it out!

3. Sell books.  If you have piles of books you may want to consider unloading them at amazon.com, powellsbooks.com or cash4books or any site that will buy back your books.  The great thing is they pay postage, so all you need is a box.  They will let you know if they will buy back your book and how much they will give you before you send the books in.