I'm fairly sure this proves something, just not sure what.

[jennaria]

I've been watching "Tidying Up" on Netflix, and was inspired to try to tidy up my desk, as being one of my designated Messy Areas.

So far this has led to the discovery of:

- large quantities of stuff that I should've thrown away ages ago
- equally large quantities of blank (or partially blank) notebooks which I am keeping because I like hand-writing first drafts
- depressingly large quantities of paperwork that I should keep, but needs to be organized...somehow
- two old credit cards that I want to cut up before I throw them away, because I'm paranoid like that
- four old cough drops (still wrapped? so probably still good?)
- 19 cents in pennies
- three books (one read, two I'm halfway through)
- and a really cool mix CD that I'm fairly sure a friend made for me back before we moved South, except I've lost the track listing so I have to listen hard and frantically web-search the lyrics to find out what I should be typing into iTunes. (One of them is mostly in Japanese. Oh, well, 'Track 4' it will remain.)

Comments

[enchanted_jae]

That was all on/in your desk?!

:D

[jennaria]

I have a roll-top desk! It fits a lot of Stuff. :pulls face:

[merit]

I moved six months ago so that helped me declutter. Of course by the end of it, I was just chucking things into boxes and hoping for the best. I also now have more kitchen storage space so that's a boon for collecting odds and ends.

[jennaria]

Wife has moved a lot, so she has much better 'we do not need to hang onto All The Things!' instincts than I do. I agree that moving is a great de-clutterer - or can be, because lord knows I have also succumbed to the 'chuck things in boxes and hope to figure everything out later' theory myself.