simplify, simplify
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 12:16 pm
So, I'm moving back to Utah for sure (hooray!), and put in my resignation yesterday. Now this leads to a grand de-junking regime, because as ever, I don't drive, and shipped all my stuff here.
Whistler suggested donating all the books I feel guilty for never having read. I love reading though, it's my #1 hobby, and I strongly associate the books I've collected with the interesting experiences I've had over the past several years. And media mail is cheaper. I do think I need to get rid of DVDs (I just don't make the time) and old magazines and especially the piles of snail mail that just replicate, like protozoa.
Clothes, on the other hand, I want to majorly rehaul. My weight has fluctuated a lot, but appears to have stabilized in the size 8 range (yay!). So I am happy to donate all the very high-end but too-large clothes I have, but am not sure about a few aspirational pieces I bought when I was skinny. I have literally an entire trunk of sweaters. Oh, and the shoes! I have like, five solid pairs I should keep and the ridiculous blue stilettos I bought at Aldo to go clubbing one time shortly before my mom died should probably just go. They're obviously still in mint condition.
Then, everything that's not books and not clothes. Jewelry, for example. This puzzle I bought and never opened. My suitcase which I first took to France (2007!) and is literally duct taped and um, I think that merits replacing (but look, boots! Shiny!). Electronics: cords that go to who knows what? I think I should get rid of everything that isn't, like, a nice camera or something. What about the guitar I got for $15 at a yard sale? I think that's worth keeping, but hard to transport.
I am going to try to sell my furniture, what little I have of it, to my roommate (brand new bookshelves from Target for $20? That probably cost me double or treble that? Seems like a good deal). I own literally zero (0) kitchen things, so that's easy.
Then the most annoying one: bathroom stuff. I have enough tubes of mascara that a Russian Leninist would probably shoot me on sight. PEEPS I WEAR MAKEUP LIKE ONCE A MONTH NOW. I think I'll keep it all and just forbid myself from buying any more freaking shampoos until they are GONE.
I had a very large room and lots of drawers at my grandma's, and she has a big house, so it was surprising how much I had acquired.
I just really want to focus on my writing and I think the mental energy of sorting through this stuff should be refocused elsewhere. I am going to be income-less soon and think I need to get what I can from Plato's Closet while the getting is good.
Anyone else ever toss out a bunch of their stuff? How did it go?
Whistler suggested donating all the books I feel guilty for never having read. I love reading though, it's my #1 hobby, and I strongly associate the books I've collected with the interesting experiences I've had over the past several years. And media mail is cheaper. I do think I need to get rid of DVDs (I just don't make the time) and old magazines and especially the piles of snail mail that just replicate, like protozoa.
Clothes, on the other hand, I want to majorly rehaul. My weight has fluctuated a lot, but appears to have stabilized in the size 8 range (yay!). So I am happy to donate all the very high-end but too-large clothes I have, but am not sure about a few aspirational pieces I bought when I was skinny. I have literally an entire trunk of sweaters. Oh, and the shoes! I have like, five solid pairs I should keep and the ridiculous blue stilettos I bought at Aldo to go clubbing one time shortly before my mom died should probably just go. They're obviously still in mint condition.
Then, everything that's not books and not clothes. Jewelry, for example. This puzzle I bought and never opened. My suitcase which I first took to France (2007!) and is literally duct taped and um, I think that merits replacing (but look, boots! Shiny!). Electronics: cords that go to who knows what? I think I should get rid of everything that isn't, like, a nice camera or something. What about the guitar I got for $15 at a yard sale? I think that's worth keeping, but hard to transport.
I am going to try to sell my furniture, what little I have of it, to my roommate (brand new bookshelves from Target for $20? That probably cost me double or treble that? Seems like a good deal). I own literally zero (0) kitchen things, so that's easy.
Then the most annoying one: bathroom stuff. I have enough tubes of mascara that a Russian Leninist would probably shoot me on sight. PEEPS I WEAR MAKEUP LIKE ONCE A MONTH NOW. I think I'll keep it all and just forbid myself from buying any more freaking shampoos until they are GONE.
I had a very large room and lots of drawers at my grandma's, and she has a big house, so it was surprising how much I had acquired.
I just really want to focus on my writing and I think the mental energy of sorting through this stuff should be refocused elsewhere. I am going to be income-less soon and think I need to get what I can from Plato's Closet while the getting is good.
Anyone else ever toss out a bunch of their stuff? How did it go?