It's like moving 5 or 6 times

Due to ongoing projects, the "right"place to put something x months ago may not be the right place now. It is frustrating and gross to live in such a mess for so long (I am a minimalist and hate clutter). Just dealing with our belongings is the equivalent to moving 5 or 6 times I think. For example, I have two piles of Ikea shelves left from the kitchen. They are shelves that I don't want to install now, but have already paid for and will probably install in the future as I use my kitchen and see what my needs are. The piles of shelves are in the house (ugh, even the idea of piles of stuff in my house stresses me out). So, why not move them to the garage right?

Well, I'd love to but that is probably an 8-hour job. First, much of our stuff is still in the garage, along with normal garage things like a lawnmower, tools, etc. We also have lots of detritus from the remodel - extra lumbar, trash cans left by a contractor, spare tiles and grout in case we need to make a repair, etc. So, the garage is pretty full and there isn't great storage solutions like shelves and racks (we will get to that, but just can't do it now). So, in order to get the shelves in, I have to rearrange a bunch of stuff including a stack of plywood, which is very hard to move around in a small space. Since I am moving the plywood, I wanted to get all the pieces scattered around the house and garage together and label them for thickness. Once that is done, then I need to do some rearranging and stacking of boxes, move some things into the house and move somethings out to the garage. Then I can get rid of those piles of shelves.

Every project is like this. It's not like I can look at something that doesn't belong in the house and simply move it out to the garage. I really think it is going to take years and years (at least 10) to sort all this out and get to a point that the house doesn't look like it is being remodeled and all of our belongings are stored properly. It reminds me of those puzzles where you have 15 numbered tiles in frame that would hold 16 tiles, like this online example, and moving one small thing means backtracking, strategizing, and planning ahead multiple moves. I am getting a bit stuck sometimes in that I can't see the forest for the trees and am getting blinded to things because I live here and see it every day.