To be de-cluttered... ahhh a dream.
I'm weird no doubt... I love watching old shows like Andy Griffith, Leave it to Beaver, Lassie, etc so I can check out their houses. I love how simple they lived and no junk in sight. Simple, clean and so nice. Someday...
That was pretty common back then, but mostly because there just wasn't the "stuff" out there to buy and there was rarely any money to buy it. I went to a very large and year round flea market the other day and I just walked around the place in a daze...the sheer amount of just JUNK that was being sold! I know these folks make money on that stuff or they wouldn't be there day after day, but to me it looked like the debris of the world of humans spread out before me.
I used to love to yard sale and I still feel that pull when passing a good farm style yard sale, simply because I love old farm tools and things but I have largely gotten over "collecting" any longer, no matter how good the bargain. Three times in my life I have sold off my collections of antiques, tools, canners, jars, crocks, and all things useful to a homestead or country home and the last time was the biggest of all...and that was only after 6 yrs of being at that place! It took us days to put it out for sale, everything marked so cheap it was like dollar days and when the two day sale was done I gave away full long trailer loads of things to a family that scrounges for a living. Even then, I had a truck load of things to move when I left there.
And I am pretty poor...all those things were obtained extremely cheap at yard sales or scavenged for, given to us because people knew we could use them, etc. Imagine what the more well funded people have cluttering up their buildings and homes!
After that last sale I realized something...I used to have everything I owned in a cardboard box under my bed and I was fine. I don't need all that STUFF and I will never need that much stuff again because I'm not going to ever put myself in that position again. That stuff is like a millstone around my neck...it hinders movement and freedom, as I had to constantly worry about how I would move my "stuff", store my "stuff", have room for my "stuff", clean my "stuff", etc, etc.
So now I routinely check myself to see if I still have extraneous stuff that can be removed and if I am slowly but unconsciously accumulating more stuff...then I really go to town to keep myself traveling light in this world. I try to keep all my personal items to the amount that can be fit into two large duffel bags if I should have to suddenly relocate...or if I am suddenly gone from this Earth, no one has to fool with all my "stuff".
Today I cleaned out a trash bag of clothing out of my closet to take to Good Will and I still have shoes and other items to take there as well. Then I'm going through my small catch all places and start tossing things in the trash, organizing or eliminating, until it's all smooth and uncluttered once again.
We also started on Mom's room today to organize all her papers, declutter her room and allow for more space and less busy looking surfaces. We have so much enjoyment out of seeing something cleaned up, organized, pared down, etc., that it's exciting and soothing to view the results!
In the grand scheme of things, our house would be considered pretty barren and very neat compared to most homes out there but to us it's gotten way too cluttered and spring cleaning is just the therapy we need to start out spring feeling fresh and renewed.
Anybody else out there doing some serious decluttering and spring cleaning?
ALSO we have a landscape business, so work with irrigation systems from the ground up, so know some stuff about plastic pipes and stuff. But when it came time to install the automatic watering system I picked out suddenly nobody on the farm knew the first thing about plumbing. 
