I Am a Packrat.

There. I’ve gotten that off my chest. I find it hard to throw things out. There are people who are much worse off about it but the average person does better than I do.

There are boxes that have moved more than twice without having been opened. Leftover parts from projects that are long completed. Mail from several years can be found in boxes in the garage - among other detritus from the years.  School papers are with computer games, next to hand tools and sitting on top of blankets and clean dishes.

I store things, plan to go through them and make sense of them.  Nothing happens.  I throw out several boxes worth of things that are useless now.  Yet, I do not seem to make any progress at eliminating the clutter.  New things seem to magically arise to take the place of any room I do make.

From time to time, the thought comes to just throw everything in a storage unit for a year.  If it is still thereat the end of the year, then trash it.  That should solve the problem, but I just cannot bring myself to do that.  Part of it is spending money to store trash.  The other part is a fear of throwing out something that I find out I truly need.

Any suggestions on what to do?

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