I'm a bit of a hoarder. Not quite on the compulsive side of the spectrum1, but at points in my life there actually was a bit of a psychological strain due to this. I remember moving into a smaller apartment with too much stuff and going hard into what I call the Sokoban problme, where you can't properly clean up, because you can't find temporary storage2.
I think I got a bit better, but it's still a struggle for me to keep clean physical spaces (I might not have Inbox Zero right now, but I'm definitely better at it in the digital realm).
I did it, ma! #
I wrote this last year:
Physical retrocomputing. I was more into the PC era than the 8 bit one, but that just means I can do even more with just software, not building beige boxes right out of 1998. Let's get rid of those towers.
And last week, I actually managed to do that. Now, I didn't do it the ideal way, i.e. they ended at the dumpster. I put some old monitors on for sale last year, but moving to a new apartment this year was embedded in a lot of busy times.
So two empty gaming cases (one from the 00s, one from the 10s) and one semi-built XP gaming rig probably ended up in some recycling center.
The fact that I'm actually quite proud of managing such a trivial task probably goes to show that there is some minor psychological issue at play here.
And of course I did keep the only "beige box" I own right now…