The war on paper is not over. The soldiers got temporarily re-deployed onto other projects to reduce home clutter in other ways, but they’re starting to trickle back and hitting the paper hard. The 2009 finances are done, as well as half of the car records. I’ve also started downloading pdf versions of some manuals.
We finally got rid of our 20 year old TV, and replaced it with something a little nicer. More importantly, we got rid of the old entertainment center. The thing was massive, and a magnet for odds and ends to accumulate upon. The newer one is much smaller. Less footprint = less mess. I swear, our living room doubled in sized once we got rid of that thing.
When we got the house, it ended up being a foreclosure auction, and some things of the previous owner were left behind, including a pretty sizeable collection of Blues and Jazz CD’s. We held onto them for a couple of years in case the previous owner ever came back looking for them, but have started to sell them off on Amazon. Listing on amazon is pretty easy, but it still takes a while to list over 300 CD’s, especially when you need to sample each one to make sure it works, given that they’ve been sitting in the attic for quite a while. Over half of them are gone now, which feels pretty good.
While getting rid of junk is important, Julie and I are trying pretty hard to minimize how much we actually throw away. There are lots of recycling programs. The TV was donated
The war is not over, but neither is it lost!
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