Please note: This is the result of a house move. I am a really tidy person.
This is the same room as it usually is.

I once lived next door to an outlaw-biker; and one day, he asked me to help him move. His method of moving stuff was to move something, then sit down, and drink a beer. Then, you moved something else, and sat down to drink a beer. Well, we didn't get a lot moved. But we sure got drunk! My only advice would be to put something away, drink a beer. Put something else away, and drink a beer, until you've got everything squared away!

Nice stained glass.

Now what's your mistaken thought about? . . . Another person's treasure.

Have you read "Organising from the Inside Out" by Julie Morgenstern? ISBN 0 7336 13500. If you haven't please do before you touch one skerrick of that treasure.

Omg !! My sympathies. We are redoing our salon/living room, beginning at the back with a new stove for heating in the winter. So the fireplace has Ben pulled out and the furniture pulled back. As a result, you can now only climb into it .....and why do I have five armchairs for three people, and a sofa. And a horrible cabinet my husband got from a client and now regrets. And loads of magazines, and cat toys galore underneath. Time for an overhaul.

You know there is no light in that room. The light you see is the English evening summer. So lovely.

How about help from those tv shows that go in and help the hoarders eeeek! Just a thought......

That's what a garage is for. To store other people's stuff.

All of this is because I moved house from a small modern rental to this big old house which I own.

I can see and feel your dilemma. I have a problem with hording, my lounge room looks like a bomb hit it. When I want something I cannot find it because there is so much stuff. Finally I have realised that it is a problem and I am raining in my buying. Slowly I am getting rid of stuff by selling it. Every time something goes it feel lighter.

Don't organize get rid of it. yard sale etc minimalism way to go. your pocket will love u.

That's such a beautiful big window - it deserves to be unobscured by detritus!

I have decided to get up early and drive to the supermarket to buy something to wear and some cheapo make up!

I bet my son would ‘help’ you. He was supposed to move my belongings into storage. Instead, he just gave a good half to a charity rather than move them.
I was really pissed at first(still am at his betrayal)...but, I’m doing fine without the stuff itself. It’s the detachment that’s so hard.

It's not easy keeping it small

More of it and believe me I am a clean freak. This is agony

Anyone free for the next 5 years to dig through it all? Oh this is only one room! There are bedrooms, a kitchen and another reception room all like this!