RE: TAKING THE BULL BY THE HORNS -- I NEED YOUR HELP!
Glad to be of insight help! I need motivation help.
My garage is a nightmare. Hauled 1/2 of everything out to fix torsion spring. Totally motovated "I'm cleaning the garage" so I hauled everything out into the driveway. I proceeded to organize things and I was doing great!! Then the stinking weatherman says worst storms to hit California in years will arrive in two days. Are you kidding me? No rain for eternity until I pull everything outside. So I threw things in boxes and managed to jigsaw puzzle my semi organized disaster back in. And it has sat like that for a month now. I want to cry because I can't get to my sprinkler fittings.
I do however have lots of metal to go to recycling (whatever artistic inspiration I had for hanging on to the stuff has vanished (I'm sure I had great ideas) sux getting older.
Cleaning and finding stuff has been like Christmas in a way. Finding many containers of tiny parts has motivated me to create my miniature mad scientist lab machines which have been selling fast.
Have a great time in Poland!! My dad is from Latvia not to far from there. Someday I want to go there but not until I clean the garage.
that's amazing my friend, i don't really need to clean it but want to...the problem is the scooters, there won't be any space available unless i find somewhere for my scooters to go....so this is whats stopping me. i have done amazing things as far as getting rid of stuff in the past 10 years, i could have filled 8 of these garage up with all my stuff i had in my warehouse. It was all really organized there and i had an ebay store so it was making money...but not anymore and i am down to very little things compared to before. Maybe when i get back from poland i will be motivated, eastern euro style is minimalist and every time i come back i am inspired to have less so this is the hope. hope you can make it to latvia soon :)
I'm still selling on eBay and etsy. I also do lots of work for seniors and they give me lots of stuff. When my neighbor passed away his family got one of those giant dumpsters. I looked inside asked if I could take stuff, they said I could have it all. The man was a klepto and a machinist. I got the best tools ever!! I'm still selling them. Micrometers, bench vises, lathe tooling, taps, drills, end mills, a couple of DSA's worth about $700 each. I told them what they had and they should sell it, but, they didn't want to bother with it. I had to do some cleaning (stuff had sat for over 25 years) I call that easy money!!
Eastern euro are minimalists not necessarily by choice. A girl from Germany came to stay with a friend and she was blown away by all the choices we have at the grocery store, clothing stores etc.
The two years I had 7 major moves, I became an extreme minimalist. Hated packing.