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Aug. 29th, 2010 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizziebelleI'm really on a roll, and it feels good. Some days, I have to stop myself because I get into the zone, and I want to keep going but I know I should stop before I get overwhelmed.
I have filled several boxes of stuff for the tag sale, and tossed several bags of trash. About 90% of what I'm going through is going, one way or the other.
I've found some surprising stuff that I forgot I had, like the poem a customer wrote for me when I worked downtown Boston. Gosh, that was 20 years ago!
I have tons of stuff I'd been saving for "someday," which I never got around to using, so it's going. I'm in a different place than I was when I saved it; I've moved on without it, so I don't need it anymore.
I'm trying to stick to the stuff that is potential tag sale fodder, and saving the other stuff for when it's over.
I already feel lighter, and my bedroom feels about 50% bigger.
I'm a little torn about my stuffed animals. They really should go, but nearly all of them were gifts, and those are harder to part with. In the end, I think they will end up going. Even Shaun the sheep. *g*
I gave a blue glass box etched with a figure of Isis to my old roommate Lakshmi yesterday for her birthday, and the look on her face was worth the tiny twinge I had in parting with it. She loves it, while I had it sitting on a shelf getting dusty and never holding anything. It had been given to me by another old roommate, with whom I parted on less than ideal terms, so it felt right to give it away.
Yesterday, as I was going through some stuff, I thought to myself that I hope no one gives me any more leopard print stuff. I have a lot of it, and most of it was given to me by people who saw me wearing something in that pattern and thought of me when they saw something in the store and bought it for me. Last night, my friend Linda handed me a package and said she saw this in a thrift store and thought of me, so she got it for my birthday. It was tiger print. *g*
I've been enviously hearing about others also doing a big purge and finding wads of cash hidden away; all I've found so far is lots of pennies & nickels, and one dollar bill in an old purse. A wad of cash would really come in handy right now.
I feel a little guilty about some of the stuff I'm throwing away, but it's not sellable, recyclable, or regiftable, and I want it out of here. I'm also trying to not feel guilty about getting rid of things that were gifts, or things I was hanging onto for sentimental reasons. I'm nearly at the point where I just want to get rid of everything, but that's not practical.
It feels really good, though. And that was the point. :)
I have filled several boxes of stuff for the tag sale, and tossed several bags of trash. About 90% of what I'm going through is going, one way or the other.
I've found some surprising stuff that I forgot I had, like the poem a customer wrote for me when I worked downtown Boston. Gosh, that was 20 years ago!
I have tons of stuff I'd been saving for "someday," which I never got around to using, so it's going. I'm in a different place than I was when I saved it; I've moved on without it, so I don't need it anymore.
I'm trying to stick to the stuff that is potential tag sale fodder, and saving the other stuff for when it's over.
I already feel lighter, and my bedroom feels about 50% bigger.
I'm a little torn about my stuffed animals. They really should go, but nearly all of them were gifts, and those are harder to part with. In the end, I think they will end up going. Even Shaun the sheep. *g*
I gave a blue glass box etched with a figure of Isis to my old roommate Lakshmi yesterday for her birthday, and the look on her face was worth the tiny twinge I had in parting with it. She loves it, while I had it sitting on a shelf getting dusty and never holding anything. It had been given to me by another old roommate, with whom I parted on less than ideal terms, so it felt right to give it away.
Yesterday, as I was going through some stuff, I thought to myself that I hope no one gives me any more leopard print stuff. I have a lot of it, and most of it was given to me by people who saw me wearing something in that pattern and thought of me when they saw something in the store and bought it for me. Last night, my friend Linda handed me a package and said she saw this in a thrift store and thought of me, so she got it for my birthday. It was tiger print. *g*
I've been enviously hearing about others also doing a big purge and finding wads of cash hidden away; all I've found so far is lots of pennies & nickels, and one dollar bill in an old purse. A wad of cash would really come in handy right now.
I feel a little guilty about some of the stuff I'm throwing away, but it's not sellable, recyclable, or regiftable, and I want it out of here. I'm also trying to not feel guilty about getting rid of things that were gifts, or things I was hanging onto for sentimental reasons. I'm nearly at the point where I just want to get rid of everything, but that's not practical.
It feels really good, though. And that was the point. :)
