To hell with my stuff, who needs it?
I just can't seem to get caught up with this HOUSE! I have only half unpacked and am just trying to keep up with the housework and business. Can you believe someone can only HALF unpack and not even notice for over a month? How do you live without your STUFF?

I am SO tempted to just toss everything that's not a seasonal item. Obviously I don't need it all.

I've been thru this before with all of our moves. I don't think in all of my houses/apartments that I have ever been box free. It's about time, eh?

I think I am going to turn over a new leaf. I am going to get rid of all this stuff before the next move. No, really, I swear! I figure I have anywhere from 6 months to 3 years to do it. Better lean on the side of caution and get it done in the next six.

I started the process back in the last place. I went through my office and used trash bag after trash bag, and donated a ton of books. I still have a ton to go and a bunch of magazines to give out to MW's. It's hard to part with magazines and books :(

I am going to start listing them on my template here I think. Brilliant idear :)

I cleaned all of that and still ended up with more than I will ever use. The process is ongoing I guess. I have binder after binder, folder after folder of things from the past that I want to do something with or reference someday.

I did away with anything like magazine articles, magazines and printed materials I can easily research elsewhere and just kept a ton of things from seminars and classes I took in my last couple of jobs in human services.

Still... there's always SO much to write. I should just get rid of everything and start over. Really I should.

In fact, I am going to do it, RIGHT NOW. I need the file cabinet space.

***** Update 4 minutes later *****

I couldn't do it. I opened the file cabinet and yanked things out and just couldn't toss them. So here's the new game plan - I do something with them in 1 year, or they're all gone.

I'm a loser :(
- posted by Ginxy @ 6/20/2004 07:54:00 AM