Cinnamon Grammy, You have the right idea. I to really need to rethink what I have. My house is not cluttered but like you, inter my craft, sewing, office room at your own risk. The room is a multi purpose room with no room to do anything. I have already cleaned out the smallest bedroom and rearranged furniture. It is much better now. Hubby never believes me when I say a bed won’t fit that way. Now it is set up my way. Much more room than before. And the room looks bigger. Now I am attacking the other bedroom which is my office, sewing and craft room. I remember my grandmother used to keep her sewing machine in the dining room. So I am going to move mine to our dining room as I will have more room. As it is, I use the dining room table for cutting out my patterns. My problem is books and clothes right now. I have books packed in shed that I forgot about and need to get out there when weather gets warmer and a bookcase overflowing with books in my craft room that I need to go through. It is good to know about the Library. We have one down the road that might take some of these books. But like you said anything over 10 years old, they might not take. I hate doing yard sales. But a cosignment shop sounds like a good idea. I know my daughter has used one in the past for the kids clothes as they outgrew them. We to are up in age with me at 68 and hubby at 81. It is time to get out of the prepping state and start decluttering on a very large scale. We really don’t know what is going to happen, be it weather related, war or even a financial colaspe of this country. I have been thinking of getting rid of more than I had planned. I am over trying to clean up around it. So the downsizing is becoming a must. I know a lady in my sunday school class stayed up half the night packing up stuff and getting rid of it. She had so much stuff she couldn’t move in that house. She got rid of a lot of old furniture that had been sitting in her garage and a lot of clothes she bought over the years that still had tags on them. She had emptied her house except for the bare necessities. I need to follow her plan. But afraid to go quite that far yet.
