Here is what I put in the November thread by mistake, as I was looking back at progress from last year --
Now that the holidays are over and I will have time to focus time and energy on the house, I'm going back to using my little 12"x12"x12" crate as a guide for decluttering. That worked well for me in October and early November, before we started helping to clear out DMIL's house.
Yesterday I sorted out enough old sweaters to fill the crate. They were too worn out to donate anywhere, except to the outdoors cats.
DH set up cubbies in the shed where, if they choose, the cats can go in and be protected from wind and snow. I have seen a couple of the cats curled up in them now and then. I tossed the old sweaters in the cubbies last night.
They will go into the trash bin when temperatures warm up in the spring.
Decluttering with my cube is just using the little crate as a visual aide to keep me going. That size seems to me to be a reasonable amount of stuff to try to get rid of each day. Before, I would spend hours decluttering and get rid of lots of stuff, but without trying to measure anything. It felt endless, like there wasn't any evidence that I had done any work at all, and there is still so much to do in every room. I was getting discouraged.
With the crate, at least I can make a little note on my form that I did it. Even if no one else can see a difference, I will know that at the end of each month I have gotten rid of X number of cubic feet of stuff. Writing it out, I know that it would sound dumb to a lot of people, but I see it as the same idea as a person on a manufacturing line in a factory keeping track of how many items they build in a week. It's hard to see any evidence of progress when the same parts keep coming down the conveyor belt and a person has to keep doing the same thing over and over every day. Sometimes we have to come up with our own version of keeping track of progress.
I will try to fill the crate each day with things that will leave the house -- donate, recycle, trash, etc. If I get in the groove, I can fill the crate more than once per session, but I don't have to. 1 crate's worth per day will be enough to make visible progress every week.
, gave me a giggle and feel light hearted again.. thank you! (and for me - a so true statement) 
I want to get out ALL of my organizing books, which I've bought, have been given to me as gifts or by DD, so they are together. I plan to re-read them all, to get in a better mind-set.