Angelique, I hope your back gets better and you can get some stuff cleared out.

I read something somewhere that said that one of the problems a lot of hoarders/clutterers have is that they treat getting rid of stuff as two decisions:

1. Do I want to get rid of this?
2. If so, what is the next perfect home for this item?

The article I read pointed out that it's okay to just get rid of the stuff. To not worry about having to find the perfect home for something we no longer even want. I find that putting stuff in trash bags (when I can make myself do it) is a much better option for me than separating it all out into things I will give to X, stuff I can recycle, stuff I can recreate into something else.

It's so hard to just get to the point where I can make a decision about whether or not I want to keep something - by the time I start working on what to do with it next, I'm exhausted-- and then if I make the decision that I want to turn my sweaters into cat beds, I have to actually follow through - it just never happens.

I really identify with the giving old underwear/socks to the piggies. I was sewing cat toys out of old socks. I have a ton of old clothes cut up into rags, but there are only so many rags you can use...