While doing the usual weekend chores last Sunday I bumped the vacuum cleaner into the table where my old computer and desktop used to be. Ever since my iPad and iPhone the location and nature of much of my computing tasks at home have radically shifted. I no longer spend such long hours sitting in front of a huge machine playing online games. Now I just use my phone to tend to email and read for the most part.
This change in how I use technology isn’t reflected in this room upstairs in my house that has for the most part been neglected. So there needs to be a reckoning. I need to sort through this area and pitch what has to be removed and generally de-clutter that part of my house. It feels a lot like a callus that has built up over time and it’s a kind of clutter that you don’t really see any more except when you run the vacuum cleaner into it. There is a general sense of simplification that appeals to me and this table full of wasted technology needs to be figured out.
Along with this I have five closet areas that need to be generally gunged. There is a coat closet on the ground floor that needs to be seriously organized, the guest room closet needs to be exhumed and dealt with, then all the upstairs closets need to be gone through. There are things I no longer need, want, or can use. Clothing, knick-knacks, and various orders of past debris that all need to be evaluated and sorted and organized.
This weekend I think will be a fantastic opportunity to address these situations, at least for as much as I can do on my own. We’ll see just how much progress I can make.