I have always been a hobbies person. Over the years I have immersed myself in music, photography, computing and reading. All of these interests bring their associated paraphernalia such as books, manuals, accessories, tapes, cables, etc. As a consequence of this I have filled my house to bursting with the accumulation over the years. I am not thankfully in the hoarder class but am somewhere down that road.
It got to the stage where I could never easily put my hand on things I needed. I would waste hours searching for my capo, a lens or a specific book I needed to refer to. It was inconvenient but I could have happily continued like this but for the death of my father.
Without going into too much detail I can say for sure that dad was a hoarder. After his death my sister and I spent weeks clearing and sorting his possessions. There were drawers and cupboards overflowing with things that I remembered from childhood and knew them to be junk even then.
A combination of these circumstances started me on the road to a clutter-free life with the ambition of disposing of unnecessary possessions which would hopefully leave me with only the things that I needed.
Here is an example of my home office before I started. Almost everything you can see in this photograph is now gone.
It has been a slow start but I am getting into my stride now.
Goodbye floppy disks full of midi programming files from studio sessions in the late 1980’s.
Goodbye RAM for old laptops that run slower than the Simon game I have on my keyring.
Goodbye master tapes of old studio recording that nobody cares about.
Goodbye to the last of my vinyl collection.
Goodbye to boxes full of old music transcriptions.
Goodbye cassette tapes.
And goodbye to the storage all the above was contained in.
To end on a happy note here is my capo which finally turned up on the bottom of a box full of midi cables.
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