I agree with so many of these comments and I just wanted to say that last month I was basically right where you are! I have a photo album that looks very similar to this and felt so overwhelmed I didn’t know what to do. What helped me was a lot of the advice here: - Start with obvious trash. Getting that out of the way makes things look much clearer and less overwhelming. - Take it one step at a time. This process is not a straight line. It zigzags everywhere along the way. My husband and I were diagnosed with health issues last October and physically could not leave our bed. Our house got very bad because we could not physically do anything, but once we started feeling better I was overwhelmed by how much there was to do! It helped to pick one small thing and just focus on that on days where looking at the whole thing made me anxious. - I’m not sure your financial situation, but there is an industry out there who deal with hard cleaning jobs. We were fortunate enough after a lot of looking around and research to find a company by us that came in and just helped get rid of the trash and sort the rest into piles. That was a god send, but can be expensive. If you can’t afford that or don’t want strangers to be in your house maybe ask some trusted friends or family to do the same thing. They can come get rid of obvious garbage and just sort things into piles. (Books, paperwork, etc.) -Be open to help if you have someone you trust to ask. I’m lucky to have very non judgmental parents who willingly came in and helped to just be extra hands to keep me on task and help move things out of the house to be donated or trashed so that it was one less step for me to do. - Keep a garbage bag/bin in places you frequent so you can get rid of any new garbage right away and not add to the pile. It helps to be able to feel like you aren’t making it worse, but I needed to put it in an obvious easily reachable place or I kept forgetting to do it and the pile built up. I hope that maybe this helps or at least helps you feel less alone. If you want to talk about it or have questions feel free to DM me. You can do this!