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Ive never hidden gear or costs I've shown my wife the klon told her how much its worth and that it's paying for my funeral as my family is more unhealthy than hers.
Guitar shit currently resides in the dining room which is as close as I'll get to a man cave for a long time! It's a weird feeling since for the past 10 years I've always had a room where all my guitar stuff has been set up ready to play whenever. Now the amp is being stored away (bands gone to shit) and I'll be getting a HX Stomp for a compact headphone rig I can hide away. Would quite like to convert the garage but it'll be a big job.
So I have no tips to offer.
We are going t have to clear my Dad's house this year and I'm wondering if that will inspire me to sort out my own place. It might... but it also gives me another excuse for putting things off until later.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
It’s a great feeling decluttering, much of what I got rid of was kept ‘just in case’ and really was just an encumbrance.
Missus munckee has begrudgingly accepted that I have a reasonable amount of stuff in the house (3 electrics, 2 acoustics, 3 amps, pedal board plus 3 or 4 random pedals). The THR and the acoustic are on display in the lounge as she likes them (or dislikes them least.) the rest can't be seen.
She is less accommodating about hearing the 'racket' though : )
Look up Marie Kondo and the KonMari process.
The process is a mix between "so obvious why the hell didn't I always do it like that?" storage tips and "don't tidy by room, tidy by object type in an order that makes real sense" with a bit of psychobabble thrown in on top.
It sounds poncy as hell but on a practical level it really works.
Now there are issues though because Mrs Snags is mostly into knitting, and whilst wool is fairly bulky, it squishes, and all her paraphernalia is quite small. Whereas guitars, amps and pedal boards are ... more obvious. So the basic rule is most of my stuff gets dumped in my old office from when I worked at home, but it's too full of general shit to use as a man cave, so I keep one, maybe two, guitars downstairs on stands for practice, with a Fly 3 tucked away. She keeps her knitting wherever the hell she likes (mostly in a bag in the lounge).
In general, though, the rule is "cupboards" - if you can hide it, it's fine. It's when it starts cluttering up the living space/publicly visible areas it's a problem.
Oh yeah, and apparently leaving amps on the landing outside the bathroom because it's "dead space" is a bad thing.
It does mean we're on the verge of potentially getting rid of every single book we own, though, which is a day I thought would never come. It's just dead space, and we could re-purpose the rooms into his'n'hers play spaces, if we did that.
I think the majority of our DVDs will be next to go.
But yes be brutal, if you haven't used it in 12 months chance you wont again.