Wow! One more thing done. Completely...
Yes I said completely. I know that it is my nature to get all excited about a project, but as I get down to the little bitty details, I tend to let them fall to the wayside. (sorry andie). But lately I have been following through all the way to the end of each task. And today was no exception.
I have been working on my office for the last 3 weeks. Going through every single box, folder, hard-drive, nook and cr-annie. (sorry me). I have put up the things that are stacked up in corners, finished projects that I just never found the time to do before and cleaned up as I went along.
Today I dealt with the box of negatives. For some reason I have kept everysingle negative over the years. Good thing is I kept them all in one place. And an even better thing is I know that I went through all the Photos last year and the year before doing the scrapbooks and photo albums. This will come into play later in the story.
The first thing I did a couple nights ago is... I started to scan the negatives.
Hey it should be easy... Right?
I thought it would be.
It wasn't.
So I decided I wouldn't scan every single one, but go through them and decide which ones I needed to keep.
Hey it should be easy... Right?
I thought it would be.
It wasn't.
So next I decided to just toss them. I haven't used them in 35 years. I'm not going to use them now. Hey I have the original picture. It would be easier to scan the picture than the negative anyways. Also we should note that I was smart enough to get my images on disc and cds when that service began. So I just copied each one of those into my pictures file folder. And then tossed them too.
Wow. That felt good to get that done. That was at least 30 years of crap that I have been carrying around from place to place. It was surely a weight off my shoulders.
I also need to note here that I never was a big picture taker. I have become more of one now than I ever was. I only hold a few pictures dear. I have the images in my head and the memories that go along with them. Which no box can hold. So why try? It was probably easier for me than most people to make the decision to trash that stuff. I wasn't too attached to it. I had always kept them because "You were Supposed to". And now I realize... I don't have to.
Just another box of crap out the door.
Remember. Less is More.
I have been working on my office for the last 3 weeks. Going through every single box, folder, hard-drive, nook and cr-annie. (sorry me). I have put up the things that are stacked up in corners, finished projects that I just never found the time to do before and cleaned up as I went along.
Today I dealt with the box of negatives. For some reason I have kept everysingle negative over the years. Good thing is I kept them all in one place. And an even better thing is I know that I went through all the Photos last year and the year before doing the scrapbooks and photo albums. This will come into play later in the story.
The first thing I did a couple nights ago is... I started to scan the negatives.
Hey it should be easy... Right?
I thought it would be.
It wasn't.
So I decided I wouldn't scan every single one, but go through them and decide which ones I needed to keep.
Hey it should be easy... Right?
I thought it would be.
It wasn't.
So next I decided to just toss them. I haven't used them in 35 years. I'm not going to use them now. Hey I have the original picture. It would be easier to scan the picture than the negative anyways. Also we should note that I was smart enough to get my images on disc and cds when that service began. So I just copied each one of those into my pictures file folder. And then tossed them too.
Wow. That felt good to get that done. That was at least 30 years of crap that I have been carrying around from place to place. It was surely a weight off my shoulders.
I also need to note here that I never was a big picture taker. I have become more of one now than I ever was. I only hold a few pictures dear. I have the images in my head and the memories that go along with them. Which no box can hold. So why try? It was probably easier for me than most people to make the decision to trash that stuff. I wasn't too attached to it. I had always kept them because "You were Supposed to". And now I realize... I don't have to.
Just another box of crap out the door.
Remember. Less is More.