Dunno What Gives...

[mlerules]

...but I ain't arguing! Have managed to plow through loads more carp this evening, tossing, sorting, DEALING with stuff I'd let get away from me for far too long. Quite pleased.

Soon up = a drawer of love letters and cards sent by Very Special People, VIP at particular points in my life. What's one supposed to DO w/this sorta thing anyway? ... Nope. Not quite ready to toss all this yet...

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[sidhefire.livejournal.com]

As long as you're on a roll... I've got a bunch of closets here that need to be gone through...
(*ducks and moves out of the way*)
huggles!

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've always been far more effective at helping others clean out their dross than deal w/my own. So mebbe this ain't as far-fetched as you might think... H'ggles backatcha anyway!

When you'

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

There's a trope I keep moving toward when I'm sorting carp... something to do with the question of, "how relevent is this object to what I am right now?"

To some degree, there's a nostalgic snowball effect: the longer I've hauled something around, the harder it is to convince myself that it's not relevent anymore. But even with mushy letters and photos of partners long split, I can generally get a sense for how shallow/deep the associations go, and if I bumble around enough, the fast infatuations crumble off, and the deeper loves keep sticking.

That Beatle's song, In My Life just started playing in my head as I wrote that last line...

These are good things to be thinking about: today I get to take a stab at the storage unit, and try to reduce the volume and chaos of it somewhat. Having had a week off from it, makes it less scary.

ve got attention for it, make hay

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

My finger slipped and hit return when I was trying to title that comment. Hmph.

Re: When you'

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

"how relevent is this object to what I am right now?"

These particular missives are still a tad relevant...they're a big part of how I dealt with the massive heartbreak a half-dozen years back. Okay, now that I write out how long 'go 'twas, mebbe they're not so relevant anymore.

Re: snowball effect - yeah, and the longer you hold onto something the stupider you (at least I) can feel when it's finally tossed...luckily I'm mostly past that now and am tossing stuff and things willy-nilly. Okay, not w-n, with some thought and reasoning, but dispassionately...and this sense of dispassion (lack of passion rather than antipassion) is precisely what's working so well, now that I think of it. Actually, much of this is just going through stacks of bills and articles I'd like to read but won't so they're going Going GONE.

Hope it goes well w/the storage unit. Even if you toss one boxload and organize a small section, it's progress. Baby steps matter...and help avert the overwhelmingness of it all, 'specially after a week away.