Wow, there is a piano there. It looked like a find Waldo picture. Looks much better now. I always have grandiose ideas of cleaning around here and find myself moving piles from one place to another. It is not until I actually get rid of items that it starts to work. I do seem to feel better in an organized space. The best of luck kiddo and Happy Dusting. I have faith that you will win the battle. Loads of love, Mom

Thanks!  It is slowly improving… mostly by moving boxes of fish stuff and other non-office stuff like that futon out of the office.  Of course that is where things fall down since there is currently no where else for that stuff to go.  I think you are right that getting rid of the stuff is about the only way to make progress at this point.

I have read this several times as I am  where you are about cleaning. I see it, I feel it and know I need to do something about it. You can do it the way you want to and I admire that. I can't do it as the clutter does not belong to me (OH WOE IS ME   LOL). I want to get a dumpster and get rid of everything.
You go girl!!

I am struggling with that, too… more than half of the office junk is hubby’s… and the desk I built for him has turned into nothing but a catch-all for more junk.  He wanted a desk to match mine, but has used it less than a couple weeks in all the years since I built it.  And sadly, like you, I can’t really get rid of the stuff.  Best thing I have been able to do is just move it mostly out of the office and hope I figure out where to store the junk later.

I could do dozens of things better with the area taken up by his desk and junk… but too many equally good ideas.  Can’t decide on what would be the best use of the space.  The first idea is to rip out the desk and re-do it all to enclosed book shelves.  Which would look nice, but not really make good use of the space.  The second idea is to change it all to a couple big fish-tanks… pretty, but again not great use.

What I would really like to do is move it all out and put my hand-tools and workbench there… but the sawdust would probably be really bad for the computer and piano… same with a sewing table.

If we had company more… which we don’t… but if we did… I would change it into shelves above and a couch or small pull-out bed below.  But we don’t have company often and don’t need that.

Basically it is the same problem I am constantly having with the outside of the house.  I really would like a little wood-working shop, but the best places to put it from the inside of the house are impossible places to have it from the outside of the house.  And the best places to have it from the outside of the house would be a lot of trouble from the inside of the house.  I don’t know why we haven’t invented pocket-dimensions yet…. That would solve everything!