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ruToday was move-out day. I'm now officially permanently out of the dorm, which is a rather strange feeling. It's weird to know I'll never be back there again, after spending four years of my life there.
This whole moving thing has left me with a problem, though. I've essentially been living in two places for four years, and now I've found myself needing to merge the two, because the clutter has reached critical mass. This isn't going to be easy, particularly since it's probably going to require copious amounts of thinning things out, getting rid of stuff, donating old clothes, that sort of thing.
See, I'm a horrible, horrible packrat. I have issues getting rid of, well, just about anything. Pretty much everything I keep I have memories associated with, like who gave it to me, why I kept it, things like that. In some cases, it's that I feel that the thing I'm saving will be useful sometime in the future, so I'm reluctant to get rid of it, in case I find out I needed it later. In the case of things that were past presents, I feel really guilty getting rid of it, somehow. I'm not quite sure I can completely explain it in words. Maybe it's something like the feeling that I don't care about them because I got rid of something they gave to me once. I know. I'm horribly neurotic.
But in any case, this results in me accumulating a lot of clutter that I'm reluctant to part with. At the same time, though, I'd like to be able to move around significantly in my room. So, do any of you folks have any advice for someone who needs to get into the mindset to get rid of clutter, but either feels that anything that's being thrown away will be useful someday or simply feels guilty doing so? I'd love some pointers for this. <3
This whole moving thing has left me with a problem, though. I've essentially been living in two places for four years, and now I've found myself needing to merge the two, because the clutter has reached critical mass. This isn't going to be easy, particularly since it's probably going to require copious amounts of thinning things out, getting rid of stuff, donating old clothes, that sort of thing.
See, I'm a horrible, horrible packrat. I have issues getting rid of, well, just about anything. Pretty much everything I keep I have memories associated with, like who gave it to me, why I kept it, things like that. In some cases, it's that I feel that the thing I'm saving will be useful sometime in the future, so I'm reluctant to get rid of it, in case I find out I needed it later. In the case of things that were past presents, I feel really guilty getting rid of it, somehow. I'm not quite sure I can completely explain it in words. Maybe it's something like the feeling that I don't care about them because I got rid of something they gave to me once. I know. I'm horribly neurotic.
But in any case, this results in me accumulating a lot of clutter that I'm reluctant to part with. At the same time, though, I'd like to be able to move around significantly in my room. So, do any of you folks have any advice for someone who needs to get into the mindset to get rid of clutter, but either feels that anything that's being thrown away will be useful someday or simply feels guilty doing so? I'd love some pointers for this. <3
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Date: 2006-04-30 04:48 pm (UTC)What I do to get in the mindset of getting rid of stuff is to take a notebook, sit down with a box of old stuff and go through it and write down the items and who gave them to me, etc., and then just toss 'em in a trash bag (unless they're really, really special). Every once in a while I just get tired of having so much crap and can get rid of a LOT in a small amount of time. But then I start collecting it all again...
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Date: 2006-05-01 11:49 pm (UTC)