Decluttering

Flicked through Clutter's last stand the other day (it would be too much to say I read it properly), and since then have thrown out:

• Gardening and Family Circle magazines dating from the 1990s. Truly, when I get my personality transplant and take up gardening seriously, I can always buy some more.
• Old spectacles, apart from the most recent pair. I did wonder whether I should find some charity or other for this, but was dissuaded by Sightsavers' explanation as to why they don't accept them. 
• Glasses and sunnies cases. I did read a discussion on the 101 ways of re-using them, and then thought: Nah. 
• A pile of old takeaway menus, and one of our rolls of Microwave crisping paper. I can't remember the last time we used this, so probably both of them should have gone, but decided to give it one last chance. 
• An old diary with nothing written in it. What did I do in 2009?

I've also done some minor file sorting and shuffling, which involved a certain amount of stuff going into paper recycling, the to-be-shredded pile, and the paper reusing pile. 

So that is satisfying in a way, but still daunting how much stuff there still is around. Actually that was a really lowering statement to type. Talk about glass half empty! I'm going to blame it on the Pink Floyd triple play on the radio. LOVE Pink Floyd, but the Beach Boys they are not.