Ugh. John and I have spent close to 5 hours so far this weekend dealing with the Ghosts of our Past. We have now been working on finishing the basement for over 2 years and there are some boxes that have sat in our basement for a very long time. We've been so focused on the basement that dealing with the stuff piling up hasn't been a priority. Now we have so much stuff, we don't know what we have or even worse we can't find what we do have and buy the same thing over again because we can't find it. We both agree now time and I think both of us have a headache from it. Poor us. Here are a few things we have learned:
1. We never need to purchase file folders, hanging file folders or plastic page protectors again in our lifetime - even if we're careful.
2. The same thing is true of binders
3. It is way easier to tell John to go through his stuff and reduce it than to actually do it to my own stuff. My stuff is "special". (it isn't really - it is just hard to figure out what is really important to keep).
4. I need to start dealing with paper items right away in the future. I have SO many papers in boxes downstairs that I'm not sure why I'm keeping. Yet, many of them have been in boxes and moved from place to place across the country for the last 7 years (! Eeeee! 7 years!). I've kept them for this long - I guess they must be important?
5. Gift wrap is also not an item we should ever buy again. Same goes for bows.
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Isn't it crazy what you accumulate??? When we moved to Indy we wondered where in our 900 sq ft condo we kept everything. Then we had a big house so we got LOTS of junk. Now we are in a house half the size and realize we just don't really need anything.
Like you we have bows up the ying yang, a million file folders, and enough envelopes to help mail all the election mailings for BOTH campaigns. Why do we do this???
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