Why I have too much stuff

By 18th July 2022Blog

It’s kind of a long-running joke, well not joke exactly, but more of a thing with me that any empty space quickly gets filled. And then overfilled. And then I get stuck because there’s no room to do anything because, well, there’s no room. And I forget what I already have and end up buying duplicates. It’s a bothersome, non-virtuous circle.

The problem is that I want to make things. Lots of different things. So rather than let it all fester in my head I decided to write it all down. Otherwise I’d be scrolling through facebook and watching videos of other people making things. This is a classic move to avoid deciding what to throw away.

Mindmap of things to make

Now that I’ve got a new, spacious studio with lots of storage, my summer plan is to get everything sorted, inventoried, and labelled. One thing I’ve learned at Uni is the value of having clear space in which to work.