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[psipsy]

Trying to get my muses warmed up for the usual attempt at a cleanup the end of this year. It's not working all that great. Just not stoked about it (yet). Then again it's always taken some effort to get going. Of course, the one from last year was supposed to be the last one, and I was supposed to be living somewhere else by now. Obviously that didn't pan out.

As it goes, one of the piles of stuff I need to sort through is my anime fandom boxes, full of program guides and miscellaneous odds and ends from my earlier fandom days. A few months ago I was considering just dumping the extra and irrelevant items, but then a friend said he would take some of the surplus items and the old anime magazines. I'm alright with that. I have 4 boxes to sort through; gonna try to knock it down to 2.

What's sad about this whole annual cleanup thing is that I've been doing it for over half the time I've been living here. The first one I did was back in 2008. That means this would be iteration #8 coming up. At the same time, I like to think that if I didn't do any of these at all, it would evolve into the kind of horrible mess we end up hearing about in the news. So I don't feel bad about that.

Comments

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Have you read Marie Kondo's book?

[psipsy.livejournal.com]

I have not, but I understand the concepts. I think it goes something like this:

http://the-toast.net/2015/02/24/get-rid-clutter-live-abundantly/

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Eerily accurate!

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

Well, it's either a big annual cleanup or a series of smaller, regular cleanups. Cleaning, like laundry and dishes, is a neverending process.

[psipsy.livejournal.com]

Trying to do some of each, which helps.