Cleaning up

[afuna]

Just threw four years' worth of notes mixed in with almost ten years' worth of accumulated junk. Weighed them all outside, and it came out to a bit more than 25 kilograms. Still have a lot more to sort out, but I've reduced the piles at the foot of my bed and for the first time in years, I can stretch out fully instead of having to curl up slightly to avoid accidentally kicking away stuff in my sleep.

(I am a slob, okay? :P)

(I did keep notes from a few subjects that were dear to my heart.)

Comments

From a fellow slob...

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

LOL, I totally feel your pain on this one, having just gone through ten years of stuff at my place. >.> Feels cathartic, though, doesn't it? The only bad part of it is if you accidentally toss out something that you actually ended up wanting/needing badly afterwards. ^^;;

Re: From a fellow slob...

[afuna]

Yes, it does! And yes, the pain of accidentally throwing out something you shouldn't have would be.. ergh. I ended up being a bit conservative about what I threw out -- so much so, that I'll probably have to go through the things that I didn't throw out and do another cleaning in the near future *G*

[ivles.livejournal.com]

gosh, how much did you get from that four-years of notes? I got a sum of money that equals to 30 meals out of it. XDD

[afuna]

You can sell them? :O The thought didn't even cross my mind (the piles of paper we're recycling and they'll probably be used as scratch paper in my mom's business. I just hope they don't actually look at the reverse side >_>)

[ivles.livejournal.com]

yes, recyclers buy them.

[afuna]

*nods* I think that that's where some of my stuff will go, though the money will likely go to the household and not to me *g*

[homeworldfan829.livejournal.com]

wow. I tend to use the back pages of handouts to print stuff. I have a 3 piles of handouts to print on drafts of anything. ehehe.

[afuna]

Heh. We have like, two drawersfull of handouts from my brother and sister. I don't think we'll be running out of scratch paper in the near future, and right now, the notes are just taking up too much space.

[connie]

Hee, I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who weighs big stacks of paper before getting rid of them! During my junior and senior years of high school, I got about 60 pounds of mail from colleges wanting me to apply. ;-)

[afuna]

It seemed like a waste not to weigh how much four years of my life was worth (in kilograms) ;)