Mega Clean-Up

The past few days I've been doing a huge clean up of my condo. It's been feeling cluttered and oddly messy. Not the normal 'There's stuff all over the floors nothing is put away' kind of messy. The kind that you notice that you have so much stuff that you really don't need and may actually run out of space soon.We live in a decent size condo (1100 square feet). 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and solarium that we use as a playroom for Dechlan. Space isn't really an issue here. It's big enough for the 3 of us.

I looked around my place the other day and realized that I need to find room for my Mom when she's here. So I started moving things around and then saw that I had so much stuff I haven't even looked at in years. We've lived here for 4 years now and I've never really gone through everything and gotten rid of stuff. Sunday night, after we put Dechlan to bed, I went into my room and just started going through boxed and I just threw out everything I didn't really need or want. I cleared out a Rubbermaid container full of stuff and almost emptied out another of. Sadly, they didn't stay empty for long. I put Christmas decorations in the empty one. Yes, I had decorations just hanging around in my close. Filled the other container with random stuff I just couldn't part with.

Yesterday I went through boxes that were under my bed and found so many CD's and magazines and books. I cleaned the dust off and found them temporary homes. I cleaned off 1 dresser and 2 shelves. I sorted through all the blankets and sheets and found them homes in the closet.

Today I'm going through ALL my clothes and getting rid of anything I don't like, fit or plan on wearing. Should take a long time. I have a huge dresser full of clothes I barely wear. Time to stop hoarding things.

Do you do this? Just go through everything and throw out/ get rid of stuff in huge batches? How often? I'm going to have to do this more often.