boxes full of papers

[urbpan]

Ideally, I'd take all the boxes full of papers that I own, and bury them all in a huge hole somewhere without looking in them. That would take them out of my life without the taske of actually looking through them (which, due to my process would take months--i have to look at everything, and recategorize it into new boxes) and I would have the peace of mind thinking that they would be possibly useful to future historians. Not that they have any use--and if they do i wouldn't discover it without poring over ever boxful--but the thought that they might completely paralyzes me. I need a therapist to help me through decluttering.

Comments

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

i know what you mean.

my childhood sits in about 2 crates.

i have what amounts to journals of all the code i wrote in highschool and college. as i don't keep a personal journal, that's all the more precious. i occasionally keep whittling at it, actually today even... condense condense... it's valuable to me, to know that *I* did that thing, 25 years ago, even though it seems like another person now.

of course, some of it, is just old stuff no good to anybody, but for a while longer, i am the caretaker.

whittle on!

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[donnad.livejournal.com]

I know a really good professional organizer that can do it for you. She has an LJ with hints and tips called findyourfloor.

I am a very organized person which drives a lot of people I know crazy. It often makes me crazy if I can't put my hands on something I'm looking for within a few minutes.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

i am pretty mentally organized and although my life seems outwardly cluttered, i actually do have a system and am able to find things quickly.

[dragonwrites.livejournal.com]

i know that feeling. i have been moving ever-increasing stacks of paper around the country for years. promised myself that this time i would go through them. ha.

[anais2.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time letting go, too. It is as if I am tossing the only record of my life which exists, without thinking that I am the best record, myself.
I'm learning, though. Change is necessary to growth.

[greenminions.livejournal.com]

I've moved boxes like this around the country too. This time I took a somewhat proactive (or maybe just procrastinating) step of actually buying filing cabinets and sorting them into files. Of course having better access to them doesn't mean I actually need the papers.

[propaddict.livejournal.com]

Just box it all up and unpack it a few times. You'll lose that vestigial hoarding instinct real quick.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's the problem: nothing has ever been unpacked, just moved from house to house in the same dusty boxes.

[bosoxmom.livejournal.com]

I have a family of hoarders and as they move about, I get inspired to clean their clutter. My own collection has been greatly reduced by the addition of the wood stove!!