Tossing out crap!
After watching A&E's show "Hoarders" for a few years I had wondered why would anyone would want to live in a house with trash up to the ceiling. Even more perplexing is that these people actually suffered from anxiety from having to part with just one item from the tons of crap filling the house. On one episode an old lady ate a piece of candy that was sitting in a jar for quite a few years. The cleaning expert sent by the show to help her asked the lady what was in the jar. She said that it (what ever the "it" was) was still good and ate a piece moldy candy right in front of the guy. The reasons for their behavior eluded me until earlier this week when I could not figure out why my closets were so full boxes.
Going through them I found I had horded packages of pens and pencils. I would buy them, put them somewhere only to forget I had ever bought them in the first place and go out and by more. Some of the pen were used for work since all of the pens there seemed to grow legs and walk out of the place. However, the pens were the least of the clutter. There were old art supplies that needed to be thrown out along with odd pieces of paper and hot press board that were going to be used for projects that never happened. Old sketches and art projects from long ago, CD labels that were bought for other projects that were tossed. Many other things were donated like books that would never be read again, sailor moon collectables, VCR movies, clothes and shoes that were never worn.
I could just kick myself because all that stuff bought was a waste of money. Not that the money spent on these items was in tens thousands of dollars or anything but it was money that could have been saved. This certainly a lesson learn on a few levels. So far in this weeks clean up, ten bags of trash were taken out and about 12 bags of stuff were donated to the good will.
Going through them I found I had horded packages of pens and pencils. I would buy them, put them somewhere only to forget I had ever bought them in the first place and go out and by more. Some of the pen were used for work since all of the pens there seemed to grow legs and walk out of the place. However, the pens were the least of the clutter. There were old art supplies that needed to be thrown out along with odd pieces of paper and hot press board that were going to be used for projects that never happened. Old sketches and art projects from long ago, CD labels that were bought for other projects that were tossed. Many other things were donated like books that would never be read again, sailor moon collectables, VCR movies, clothes and shoes that were never worn.
I could just kick myself because all that stuff bought was a waste of money. Not that the money spent on these items was in tens thousands of dollars or anything but it was money that could have been saved. This certainly a lesson learn on a few levels. So far in this weeks clean up, ten bags of trash were taken out and about 12 bags of stuff were donated to the good will.