Hoard

There is something quite cathartic about throwing stuff out. I'm currently sorting through all of my belongings in preparation of moving out of my flat so I can rent it out. As I'll be moving into Sarah's there will be less space to keep everything so it's given me an opportunity to declutter. I'm actually feeling quite good about doing it.
I've always had a slight tendency to hoard especially when it comes to entertainment materials such as books and dvd's. It also extends to clothes and knick knacks although I have got better recently with not keeping these. Quite often I keep belongings just in case I ever need them again (which invariably I don't) or for half baked sentimental reasons. It's amazing just how much junk you can store when you get your own flat. I have hundreds of books that I have collected over the years partly due to the fact that I may read them again (which never happens as I buy too many new books) and partly because I thought it would be cool to have a large book collection. However I have to accept that I'm probably never going to have a house big enough to have a library room so I may as well get rid of them. Well, maybe about half of them.

Having too many belongings can just be excess baggage. Effectively there isn't really a need to keep all the stuff I have (why I still have a street hockey stick bought about 9 years ago when I've never played street hockey is a mystery to me) so it may as well be chucked.
As I'm going to have a bit of a nomadic life over the next 4 years of studentdom then I really need to keep my stuff to a minimum to save carting it between Edinburgh & Aberdeen.