Preparing For More Clutter...But Not Too Much

I sometimes think that shelves in the home have only one purpose and that is to store clutter.

But I needed a shelf system badly earlier this week. And so just before the current heatwave set in

I set myself a challenge to create a six tier shelving unit made from three long lengths of timber,

and all put up in a matter of hours in which I surprised even myself.

But at least it allowed me to pick up piles of clutter on my floor and finally shelve it.

With the news that my longest and oldest friend may soon become a permanent resident at his

current Care Home, then it's going to be down to me to carry out the mammoth task of clearing

out his three bedroom house full of clutter, some of which is no doubt going to end up in my

place. But then the last thing I need now is more clutter. So I'll have to be very picky and

choosy in what I bring to my place.

Last week I did bring back home an impressive collection of leather bound books

titled The Harvard Classics featuring works by Chaucer, Whitman, Dante, Bacon,

Plato and others. And this is just half of the collection. But as for some other

 heavy oversized leather encyclopedias I wouldn't really want them and will eventually

donate them to Charity.

Yes, my friend was a bit of a hoarder and refused to cut back on all his clutter with

things like dvd's, CD's, Vinyl records, cassettes, many books, magazines and worst of 

all, thousands of that out of date format VHS Cassettes, something we always shared 

a joke about when I kept saying that they all belong in a big yellow skip as most of them

were just tv recordings.

"THE PRIMARY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A

HOARDER AND A COLLECTOR IS TASTE."