Spring Cleaning

I　know that in Japan it is customary to clean the house thoroughly at the end of the year, but it's such a busy and chilly time.  I'd prefer to put cleaning off indefinitely but the mess is starting to creep into every corner of my daily life.  I　must clean.  I must vacuum, dust, and scrub, but most of all I must throw things out!  As I write all this I remember being gifted a mirror that was busy collecting dust in my father-in-law's house.  Can I? Do I dare toss things like this out?  These decisions haunt me, the pack rat.  I　can't bear to think about my son's Ultraman figures incinerating in Hassamu.  The thought makes me shutter.  What to do?

Clutteringly,

Pat