SiouzQ.
9-7-14, 7:26pm
So how did making the humungous decision to finally mop the kitchen floor lead to me decluttering a 22 year old Five-In-One stereo? It goes like this: remove almost everything out of dinette (which is actually my music studio. There is no dining table or dining chairs). Vacuum very grimy floor. Look at all the clutter that rests on top of this old stereo (music books, sets of strings, CD's, Tab Books, and many three ring binders). Wonder how one can organize all these amplifier cords ,two amplifiers (one for acoustic and one for the electric guitar), a microphone stand, music stand, three guitars, two guitar stands, and two very large floor speakers with dusty plants on top.
My solution was to downsize the stereo, so without much further ado, off it went to the thrift shop. In its place as a horizontal surface, I took a small bookshelf that I've had at the top of the stairs for the last eighteen years and brought it down to the dinnette - that is what is holding all the music stuff. The top shelf will be for whatever smaller sound system I decide to upgrade to. The decorative items that used to live on this bookshelf are now in my living room bookcase, which had a lot of empty room on it from a previous decluttering project. So now the top of the stairs looks much bigger without furniture in it. I then rearranged some of the pictures on the wall.
The music room (aka the dinnette) is much more spacious-looking. I put the two plants on top of a brown painted little step ladder I dumpster-dived last month. There is still a little more tweaking but I really like the change.
So in the last two months I have decluttered about one hundred pounds of old electronic equipment ~ got rid of a 1993 TV set, VCR, and DVD player. I just use my laptop to watch Netflix. My birthday present to myself next month with be some sort of sound system. Since I don't generally shop for electronics I am not even sure what is out there for sale.
My solution was to downsize the stereo, so without much further ado, off it went to the thrift shop. In its place as a horizontal surface, I took a small bookshelf that I've had at the top of the stairs for the last eighteen years and brought it down to the dinnette - that is what is holding all the music stuff. The top shelf will be for whatever smaller sound system I decide to upgrade to. The decorative items that used to live on this bookshelf are now in my living room bookcase, which had a lot of empty room on it from a previous decluttering project. So now the top of the stairs looks much bigger without furniture in it. I then rearranged some of the pictures on the wall.
The music room (aka the dinnette) is much more spacious-looking. I put the two plants on top of a brown painted little step ladder I dumpster-dived last month. There is still a little more tweaking but I really like the change.
So in the last two months I have decluttered about one hundred pounds of old electronic equipment ~ got rid of a 1993 TV set, VCR, and DVD player. I just use my laptop to watch Netflix. My birthday present to myself next month with be some sort of sound system. Since I don't generally shop for electronics I am not even sure what is out there for sale.