For the fear-of-judgement and physical-inability-to-do-the-work thing: does Taskrabbit (or similar) operate in your area? If so, maybe hire somebody to be your hands: you've never seen them before and you'll never see them again, so who the fuck cares if they're judging you.
For storage: Ikea shelves?
For "a very strong tendency to not want to get rid of something as I'm sorting even though the only time I remember or care that I have it is when I'm sorting": a good trick to convince yourself that something is get-riddable-of is to, while going through an area, make a box for "stuff I know I should get rid of but WHAT IF I NEED IT AS SOON AS I THROW IT OUT". Put everything in it. Tape or otherwise secure the lid. Label the box with month and year -- not contents. Do not open the box unless you need something in it (no looking "just to see what's in there"). In [6 months/a year/whatever], if you haven't opened the box to get something that was in it that you needed, throw the box out without opening it again to refresh your memory of what's in there.
For "stuff is all jumbled together", there's really no good solution for that other than designating a Place for every category of Stuff, then moving/having people move Stuff that is not in its Place every time you see it. This does, alas, take a lot of setup work to move things around, but can often be combined with many of the aforementioned steps.
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Date: 2014-03-29 02:14 pm (UTC)For storage: Ikea shelves?
For "a very strong tendency to not want to get rid of something as I'm sorting even though the only time I remember or care that I have it is when I'm sorting": a good trick to convince yourself that something is get-riddable-of is to, while going through an area, make a box for "stuff I know I should get rid of but WHAT IF I NEED IT AS SOON AS I THROW IT OUT". Put everything in it. Tape or otherwise secure the lid. Label the box with month and year -- not contents. Do not open the box unless you need something in it (no looking "just to see what's in there"). In [6 months/a year/whatever], if you haven't opened the box to get something that was in it that you needed, throw the box out without opening it again to refresh your memory of what's in there.
For "stuff is all jumbled together", there's really no good solution for that other than designating a Place for every category of Stuff, then moving/having people move Stuff that is not in its Place every time you see it. This does, alas, take a lot of setup work to move things around, but can often be combined with many of the aforementioned steps.