Due in no small part to our rodent issues, I've been on a cleaning kick lately. This weekend, I finally tackled my room. How long has it been since it had a good gutting? Well, let's put it this way. When I first got the cats, I had to throw everything on high shelves as fast as possible... and 99% of those items hadn't been touched since. That was over a decade ago.
So far, I've removed a trash can's worth of raw junk, two bins worth of recycling, and nearly three garbage bags' worth of items for donation and/or Half Price Books. And I still haven't hit the closet... that'll be at least a bag's worth of stuff to go, as well.
I've found many things I forgot I ever had. I found things I can't for the life of me remember why I bought. And I found books that must have been snuck in by the clutter gnomes, because I know I never spent money on them. I also found old sketchbooks and art projects, not to mention fragmentary notes and sketches for many of my old stories. For now, at least, I'm hanging on to those; flawed as they were, they were still things I created, and I just can't bring myself to turn my back on my own imaginary worlds, even if I've forgotten almost everything I knew about them. (Just for the heck of it, I should try revisiting them sometime...)
Even though I'm not done, and even though I'm probably holding onto more things than I ought to, I'm already feeling the lightness of shedding unneeded crud from my life. It's a good feeling. Almost makes me wish I had the gumption to clean more often.
Almost.
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Yet another pointless blog by another pointless blogger...
Quote of the Moment
"It's never wrong to hope, Byx," said my mother. "Unless the truth says otherwise."
- from Endling #1: The Last, by Katherine Applegate
- from Endling #1: The Last, by Katherine Applegate
About Me
- Brightdreamer
- I am a beast in her 40s, passably resembling a human being, with no clue what I'm supposed to be doing with my life and no money to do it with even if I knew. In the meantime, I review books, daydream too much, write and draw too little, and generally waste space by existing.
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- Comic - Brewster Rockit
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- Comic - Fowl Language
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- Music - Ambient Mixer (soothing ambient noise soundtracks)
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- Writing - Absolute Write
- Writing - NaNoWriMo
2 comments:
I'm a packrat by nature, but every so often the clutter becomes too much, and it feels SOOOOO GOOD to get rid of stuff. I'm processing through a few rooms now, but I have A Plan that will finally reorganize the basement... aka, my project area. (EEK!)
Well, we sent approximately 2.5 garbage-bags-full worth of stuff to the nearest thrift store today, and five bags went to Half Price Books. (Of course, they have the perfect little scam going there; while you're waiting for them to come up with an offer, you're browsing shelves. In the end, I only had to spend three dollars for a stuffed bag of books and software. A good exchange, overall.) And I still haven't gotten into the closet yet... I'm trying to figure out a way to reorient my computer/printer so I can actually do that, but right now the only way I can think to rearrange things still blocks off the closet door.
My next task/hope is to gut the side of the basement where my workbench sits. I'm sick to death of being pushed out of my workspace by other people's clutter and their refusal to do anything about it...
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