My room is a mess and I'm trying to tackle the mountain of big and little things which I have collected over the years. Over the past year I have come to realise that really, we do not need all that much to survive...so now I am sifting through all this crap which I have hoarded in the past and I wish that I would have come to this realisation earlier...like maybe 10 years earlier in the least!!!
Textbooks...from high school, from university...which are now useless! Why the hell did I keep them all??? And now I have trouble donating them even! The only place for them now is the recycling bin!
Plastic bags!!! Like 3 bags full of them!!! What the??? Luckily I can now drop them off at my local Woolies for recycling also!!! That's comforting in a way. I cringe now whenever I buy groceries and they put my stuff in plastic bags (I did take my stuff out and repack into my own material bag afterwards!)...or when my mum comes home with groceries and more plastic bags...
My clothes...well, I must say they were the easiest to sort through and dispose of...all going to the Salvos! But it's the little things in my room which are taking me forever to go through!!! Keyrings, pins, badges, watches, cassette tapes, foreign currency, small ornaments...all which have a considerable layer of dust on them...I should just close my eyes and throw everything out...
So anyway, I better get back to it...I have about 25 years worth of trinkets and treasures to sort through. And yeh I know I am 29 but I'm sure I wouldn't have collected anything in my first 4 years of life :-)
My valuable lesson...donate your stuff...or sell your things while it still has some value...you certainly won't miss it!!!
Textbooks...from high school, from university...which are now useless! Why the hell did I keep them all??? And now I have trouble donating them even! The only place for them now is the recycling bin!
Plastic bags!!! Like 3 bags full of them!!! What the??? Luckily I can now drop them off at my local Woolies for recycling also!!! That's comforting in a way. I cringe now whenever I buy groceries and they put my stuff in plastic bags (I did take my stuff out and repack into my own material bag afterwards!)...or when my mum comes home with groceries and more plastic bags...
My clothes...well, I must say they were the easiest to sort through and dispose of...all going to the Salvos! But it's the little things in my room which are taking me forever to go through!!! Keyrings, pins, badges, watches, cassette tapes, foreign currency, small ornaments...all which have a considerable layer of dust on them...I should just close my eyes and throw everything out...
So anyway, I better get back to it...I have about 25 years worth of trinkets and treasures to sort through. And yeh I know I am 29 but I'm sure I wouldn't have collected anything in my first 4 years of life :-)
My valuable lesson...donate your stuff...or sell your things while it still has some value...you certainly won't miss it!!!
