Dentist and Decluttering
Apr. 25th, 2024 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crystalcazzieI went to the dentist yesterday and he said lots of nice things which included the words "excellent" and "perfect", so that made me feel pretty good about myself and my dental care abilities. The journey up wasn't much fun though, as my first bus was very late and I was stressing about missing my connection, but fortunately I'm the kind of overthinker who builds a huge cushion of time into her plans so I did manage to make it in time. Just.
Today represents another personal victory as I have finally convinced myself that I do not need all that stuff I brought back from my holidays. You may remember back in January I managed to get rid of the two box files of stuff from Canada. Well, I have loads of bags of similar stuff from various other places I have been to. And every time I try to get rid of them I seem to have some sort of block that doesn't let me do it. But today I finally managed to power through that block and accept that there is no point keeping all these things that I've not looked at in years and most likely never will again. What's the point of keeping receipts from that time I went to The Cheesecake Factory in San Francisco in 2011? There isn't one. So out it goes. Part of me wishes I could just throw all the bags straight in the bin but I'm not doing that for two reasons: One, I want to be good and separate rubbish and recycling. And two, I want to make sure I'm not getting rid of anything important. Being the ridiculous hoarder I am/was I kept absolutely everything together, so while I'm happy to get rid of receipts and leaflets and the like, I don't want to lose important things like the photo of me on top of Sydney Harbour Bridge. Or souvenirs I bought and for some reason just left in the bag to be shut away for years.
In related news, have you ever wondered what happens to chocolate after 14 years? Cos I can show you:
I'm pretty sure this was an accident. Even at my worst I wouldn't have deliberately packed away a chocolate bar like that. I would have eaten it and saved the wrapper.
And while we're on the subject of decluttering, I've also sent another parcel to VCC full of old stuff that was probably important to my grandparents but isn't to me. Hopefully I'll get some money from that but even if I don't at least the stuff is out of the house.
Today represents another personal victory as I have finally convinced myself that I do not need all that stuff I brought back from my holidays. You may remember back in January I managed to get rid of the two box files of stuff from Canada. Well, I have loads of bags of similar stuff from various other places I have been to. And every time I try to get rid of them I seem to have some sort of block that doesn't let me do it. But today I finally managed to power through that block and accept that there is no point keeping all these things that I've not looked at in years and most likely never will again. What's the point of keeping receipts from that time I went to The Cheesecake Factory in San Francisco in 2011? There isn't one. So out it goes. Part of me wishes I could just throw all the bags straight in the bin but I'm not doing that for two reasons: One, I want to be good and separate rubbish and recycling. And two, I want to make sure I'm not getting rid of anything important. Being the ridiculous hoarder I am/was I kept absolutely everything together, so while I'm happy to get rid of receipts and leaflets and the like, I don't want to lose important things like the photo of me on top of Sydney Harbour Bridge. Or souvenirs I bought and for some reason just left in the bag to be shut away for years.
In related news, have you ever wondered what happens to chocolate after 14 years? Cos I can show you:
I'm pretty sure this was an accident. Even at my worst I wouldn't have deliberately packed away a chocolate bar like that. I would have eaten it and saved the wrapper.
And while we're on the subject of decluttering, I've also sent another parcel to VCC full of old stuff that was probably important to my grandparents but isn't to me. Hopefully I'll get some money from that but even if I don't at least the stuff is out of the house.
