Finally today I got around to decluttering the attic! The lateness of this endeavour is not
entirely my fault – the standing lamp that illuminates the attic had broken,
and the little lamp I used as an understudy was woefully inadequate. However, yesterday I finally managed to buy a
new standard lamp (during one of my charity shop crawls, obviously), so I had no
excuse to delay the decluttering any further.
I laboured for six hours flat! I have to say that the Attic Clear-up was not
so much a declutter as a tidying exercise – I only threw out several large bags
of stuff for the charity shops, and one bag of rubbish for the bin-men to
collect. Mainly I sorted through old
bank statements, academic notebooks and study notes, carpets and curtains, and
Christmas ornaments. I also stacked up
empty boxes I want to keep and labelled everything up.
