Where can you reduce clutter in your life?

I had a conversation with a friend about this last year. We were talking about our personal writing goals and the things we were going to try to do to stick to them. The discussion eventually leaned towards the subject of working spaces.

Technically you can write anywhere, so long as you have a writing utensil and paper (traditionally). Every writer is, however, different in their needs. Working space, atmosphere, location, background noise in a public area. You get the idea. Well, for my friend and I, we had different needs in those categories for what would help us be productive. The one thing we really had in common was the overwhelming need to declutter our preferred working spaces.

My dilemma when it came to decluttering was a combination issue. I have a wide variety of hobbies, which means having a lot of stuff, and not a lot of space to call my own. Naturally this means spillover. Currently, I’m doing my best to keep myself and my stuff contained in one of two places, either my bedroom or my little corner of the basement. My space in the basement is where my gaming and crafting/painting spaces live. That space is less important for today’s topic. My bedroom is where I have a separate computer I use for writing, but I often also use it for researching deck building tips and ideas for Magic. That little desk gets cluttered with stacks of Magic cards. It also becomes the collection space for other odds and ends that I haven’t decided where they belong.

Back to the original conversation about decluttering, I had already done this a couple of times over the course of last year. It also desperately needs to be decluttered again so I can use that computer for its intended purpose. Guess I know what I’m doing this week!