Friday Report
Dec. 28th, 2018 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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unclutterI have not had any thing to say for most of the month; no real progress on any object removal.
I do have a report on my project for the year. I did not remove 500 books from my house, but I did remove 343. I don't think that is bad at all. There is no real visible difference, which tells you how many books I do have stacked around, or stored in boxes in the house or the garage. There MAY be fewer boxes stored in the garage; I did not keep count, or a separate count of my personal books vs the books collected for prison libraries. It looks like there are fewer boxes there.
I plan to keep this going next year. Recording a count seems to encourage letting go of more to raise the numbers - I need the encouragement, and the goal to keep at it. So, 500 books is the goal for next year as well.
January and February tend to be devoted to paper management; it's time to gather tax records, and clean out the various household files. I also hope to get back to organizing and clearing some of the many bits of fan fiction I have stored in random files, and maybe edit the number of interesting articles I saved over the years, most never to be read again. It is about as hard to let go of as books, so I am not expecting quick results. I expect all of this to feature frequently in my revived Morning Pages; it is astonishing what I can whine about first thing in the morning.
May our next year result in less stuff in our houses and more pleasure in open spaces.
I do have a report on my project for the year. I did not remove 500 books from my house, but I did remove 343. I don't think that is bad at all. There is no real visible difference, which tells you how many books I do have stacked around, or stored in boxes in the house or the garage. There MAY be fewer boxes stored in the garage; I did not keep count, or a separate count of my personal books vs the books collected for prison libraries. It looks like there are fewer boxes there.
I plan to keep this going next year. Recording a count seems to encourage letting go of more to raise the numbers - I need the encouragement, and the goal to keep at it. So, 500 books is the goal for next year as well.
January and February tend to be devoted to paper management; it's time to gather tax records, and clean out the various household files. I also hope to get back to organizing and clearing some of the many bits of fan fiction I have stored in random files, and maybe edit the number of interesting articles I saved over the years, most never to be read again. It is about as hard to let go of as books, so I am not expecting quick results. I expect all of this to feature frequently in my revived Morning Pages; it is astonishing what I can whine about first thing in the morning.
May our next year result in less stuff in our houses and more pleasure in open spaces.
