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I started reducing my 4-drawer file to one for in the house, but I started with the top drawer which has my personal files, including one big letter file. This needed to be sorted, which took time, and I ended up reading the letters from my mother during my first 2 years at college - 1964-1965-1966 - when I was apparently distressed at adjusting to social and financial situations. I seem to have written complaints a lot, and my mother replied in some detail. All this reading of old letters slowed progress in file sorting, and I have not yet made it to the two important drawers of current records.

Since the local climate has finally made it to reasonably warm weather I could at last sort the clothes in the bedroom closet and exchange seasons. I also took the time to try to reduce what I kept. The closet is still stuffed with summer clothes, but there is a pile of mostly white shirts that looks to be about a foot high that will be donated somewhere soon. Some of those shirts have been around for several years, and 2 of them still have tags - I never wore them.

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Date: 2018-05-05 11:56 am (UTC)
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Sounds like it must have been fascinating reading!

Good job on decluttering while you did the seasonal change over. I sympathise on the buying of clothes that never get worn -- I'm sure I have some of those, because I only last so long when shopping that I grab the first wearable thing, and I don't always get that judgement right when tired.

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