How Much Junk do you Keep?

Besides, I have found money, a savings bond, and some newspaper clippings from 1935,

Just my 2 cents.

Yep I found prize bonds from the UK that I am trying to unravel currently.

I just threw out a box of papers and folders from 10 years ago. Several brown recluse spiders crawled out of it! It had been sitting in a closet for a long time.

I don't keep any old textbooks or handouts at all.

I just threw out a box of papers and folders from 10 years ago. Several brown recluse spiders crawled out of it! It had been sitting in a closet for a long time.

Thank you for immediately convincing me to throw out any and all boxes of paper in my house.

I currently feel stifled by how much "stuff" I have, even though objectively it isn't very much compared to other people that I know. But when I was a travel nurse and everything had to fit in my car, I learned how free it felt to not be weighed down by "stuff", and now I miss it!

2 Year Rule.

If not used, worn, or seen in two years....it goes. Habitat for humanity. Goodwill. Church. I never sell things and I don't do yard sales. The first brings the crazy and the second brings the 5am doorbell and grandma's fighting to the death for a macramé plant hanger.

Exceptions, weapons and paraphanelia, but I often re eval the need for any particular thing in that category...tools, nice furniture, items with meaning or emotional attachment like gifts from my parents who have passed away.

Went from 2200 sq ft 4br 2ba house with two barns and a cellar chock full of crap I didn't even remember I owned...to a 1000 sq ft condo, well organized and brutally pared to necessities and a few nice items. I could move in two days flat now.

The nursing books were primarily ebooks and my study material was also online...so I pulled every damn item off my personal computer and copied them onto a 500g thumb drive. Absolutely zero reason to kill trees and take up space for anything literary these days.

I'm a purger, but I kept this stuff for a while. I just recently tossed it though, which felt good. I did refer to my old power points a couple of times, mostly to look up something that I had a feeling we were taught wrong in school, lol. They will be out of date quickly, so it's not the best reference. I never bought actually texts, I only used e-texts. If I had texts, they would have been long gone!

2 Year Rule.

If not used, worn, or seen in two years....it goes. Habitat for humanity. Goodwill. Church. I never sell things and I don't do yard sales. The first brings the crazy and the second brings the 5am doorbell and grandma's fighting to the death for a macramé plant hanger.

Exceptions, weapons and paraphanelia, but I often re eval the need for any particular thing in that category...tools, nice furniture, items with meaning or emotional attachment like gifts from my parents who have passed away.

Went from 2200 sq ft 4br 2ba house with two barns and a cellar chock full of crap I didn't even remember I owned...to a 1000 sq ft condo, well organized and brutally pared to necessities and a few nice items. I could move in two days flat now.

The nursing books were primarily ebooks and my study material was also online...so I pulled every damn item off my personal computer and copied them onto a 500g thumb drive. Absolutely zero reason to kill trees and take up space for anything literary these days.

I recently purged a ton of stuff. I half-@$$ed the Konmari thing. I completely purged all of my teaching stuff- but somehow convinced myself to hold on to a few nursing textbooks. I may have to rethink that.