It's so good to purge

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Matterhorn Fan

But my real problem is paper. It's everywhere. And I can't throw most of that stuff away until I shred it, dammit. And I might read that AAA magazine when I have a day off someday--right?

Oh, I am a serious paper saving whore-der. From the earliest days in grammar school to the present, I save needless, useless bits of paper. That is part of the reason why I started in my office, where the closet of hell is. Piles of paper, old bills, ads, mail, useless crap that I might look at or read someday (when hell freezes over, surely).

The ONLY really good thing I learned when I left my job of 10 years and moved out here was this, after 10 years, I left my firm with 10 bankers boxes of crap, personal crap, paperwork, samples of work and just plain old sh!!t. I swore as I loaded the 10 boxes of crap up, moved them across country and then proceeded to throw every little piece out, that I would never NEVER EVER accumulate so much crap at my office again. If I cannot take my apersonal belongings out in a standard Trader Joe's shopping bag, it's not owrth having. This is the only personal edict with regard to packratting that I have managed to keep. At my job, I can walk out with a small carry bag for my speakers, pictures and a few funky tchochkes (how do you spell that?).

Alas, this is not a lesson I have applied to my home. But, I am making an effort to leave here with not a whole hell of a lot more than when I arrived. At least I am now minus 3 huge boxes of VHS tapes.

Thanks to everyone for the mojo of encouragement too, this is harder than I thought. I'm trying to be ruthless (which reminds me, appropos of nothing to a favorite song lyric of a friend of mine, looped on one of his tunes "Ruth & Johnny went for a ride, Johhny hit a bump, Ruth hit a tree, Johnny drove on, Ruthlessly")