Discussion Are you planning on or getting your affairs in order? Decluttering, sorting, cleaning, etc.

[Worthless_nobody]

I have not started cleaning up or any decluttering. I just don't have the motivation or energy. I won't leave a mess but I figure I'll leave my belongings to 2 people if they want them. There isn't much stuff I lost a lot through moves and homelessness. Maybe the belongings can remind them of me. I got what little money I have in a safe area so it can go to my partner. I have written almost all of my note and informal will.

 

[icanhasnick]

are probably going to look through them and there's a lot I don't want them to ever see

Most likely they won't. If going through all the pages of this text from you and about you looks like quite a chore to you, imagine to others.

 

[Shades of Grey]

Part of the reason I've purchased a bunch of stuff for my new place is effectively "staging". I know that this is likely where I will die, and I don't want it to be a shitty depressing mess (or a huge pain for somebody I care about to have to deal with) when the time comes. I guess I just want it to look like a functional person lived here.

Which is probably kind of weird. I'll own that. It is what it is.

 

[trainwreck2]

I feel like I sort of have things in order, like I don't have any piles of paper, magazines, etc. sitting around. I'm one of those people who declutters once every couple years or so, so what I have left is decent stuff that someone in my family will want. My OCD has paid off for once!

 

[OnlyTheWind]

I have way too much stuff. This is gonna take a while :(

 

[DyingAlf]

I have cleared out/sold/given away loads of my stuff before previous attempts.
It's a right pain in the a** when I've failed & realise that I now have to shop for clothes/stuff (which I hate) on top of feeling so crap because I've failed & still have to exist.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

Not physically, but there's some digital cleaning i would definitely want to do...

 

[BPD Barbie]

I have a will which I've documented my funeral arrangements in but that's all. I don't plan on decluttering etc as I don't own a great deal of things anyway and have no money to give to people.

 

[Sarahlynn]

That is my plan, and it is an ongoing process, altough a slow one.

Some things are hard though. Like special, collected souvenirs or postcards from a better time. There is always the chance that I'll fail and there are some things that are important to me and very hard to throw away. I went through this process a few years ago, and I shredded a lot of personal letters from my grandma that I have been regretting. I never had the energy to read them thouroghly and now they are gone.

Last time I had much more doubt though, and ended not going through with it, the situation is different now. But still, some things are hard. But I don't want these things around for my parentes and siblibgs to clean up either, I want things to be as ordered as possible when I CTB.

 

[icanhasnick]

What about stashing them all in a box labeled "if I pass, throw away/dispose of it unopened" ?