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.

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[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.