Decluttering Update
Jan. 25th, 2024 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crystalcazzieThe skip is gone and the charity donations have been collected. I'm pleased with how much I was able to get out of the house, but I do feel a bit depressed when I look around and everything still looks really cluttered. But I am keeping at it. The Tech Recycle people should be coming on Monday to pick up my small electricals, which keep increasing in number as I find more and more things hidden around the place!
In a personal victory, I finally got rid of the two box files of stuff I brought back from Canada. I've always been a collector and a hoarder and I kept absolutely everything from that trip. Receipts, leaflets, business cards, bottle labels, plastic bags, napkins, you name it. I think I originally had an idea to make a scrapbook of it all, but obviously didn't do that, so I just kept everything like I would someday want to look back at it again. I feel at this point I should emphasise that this trip to Canada I'm referring to is not the one I went on in 2018. It's the one I went on in 2006. So these boxes have sat upstairs taking up space for nearly 20 years because I thought I might someday want to look back at them. And a few days ago I looked back at them and threw almost everything away. I did keep some bits cos it is nice to have a few souvenirs, but the majority is gone. A small part of me is worried I made the wrong choice cos I must admit that I did like looking at things and remembering the places I went to, but on the other hand I must acknowledge that doing so did make me rather sad cos I kept thinking about how much I loved that trip and how much it hurts that I'll never go on one like that again. It made me want to return to that time and the simple basic fact is that I can't. All I can do is remember it fondly and move forward. I have to learn to live in the present and not be held back by the past, and that's one of the hardest lessons that I'm learning from this decluttering journey.
In other news, it's Burns Night and I am enjoying a wee dram of whisky. It's the 30 Year Old Scotch that my brother got me for my 30th birthday, which anyone who saw my most recent birthday post will realise makes it over ten years old. So this is also decluttering, really. I just have to resist the urge to keep the pretty box once I've finished the bottle.
We're also having vegetarian haggis for dinner. I'm still not brave enough to try real haggis, but I've had the vegetarian version before and it was delicious so I'm looking forward to this.
In a personal victory, I finally got rid of the two box files of stuff I brought back from Canada. I've always been a collector and a hoarder and I kept absolutely everything from that trip. Receipts, leaflets, business cards, bottle labels, plastic bags, napkins, you name it. I think I originally had an idea to make a scrapbook of it all, but obviously didn't do that, so I just kept everything like I would someday want to look back at it again. I feel at this point I should emphasise that this trip to Canada I'm referring to is not the one I went on in 2018. It's the one I went on in 2006. So these boxes have sat upstairs taking up space for nearly 20 years because I thought I might someday want to look back at them. And a few days ago I looked back at them and threw almost everything away. I did keep some bits cos it is nice to have a few souvenirs, but the majority is gone. A small part of me is worried I made the wrong choice cos I must admit that I did like looking at things and remembering the places I went to, but on the other hand I must acknowledge that doing so did make me rather sad cos I kept thinking about how much I loved that trip and how much it hurts that I'll never go on one like that again. It made me want to return to that time and the simple basic fact is that I can't. All I can do is remember it fondly and move forward. I have to learn to live in the present and not be held back by the past, and that's one of the hardest lessons that I'm learning from this decluttering journey.
In other news, it's Burns Night and I am enjoying a wee dram of whisky. It's the 30 Year Old Scotch that my brother got me for my 30th birthday, which anyone who saw my most recent birthday post will realise makes it over ten years old. So this is also decluttering, really. I just have to resist the urge to keep the pretty box once I've finished the bottle.
We're also having vegetarian haggis for dinner. I'm still not brave enough to try real haggis, but I've had the vegetarian version before and it was delicious so I'm looking forward to this.
