Making Progress

One of the distractions in my home is the amount of PAPER that has accumulated over the 26 years I have lived here.

The Paper Trail includes clippings, pages from magazines; and letter-size sheets of paper about my Hobbies, club records, saved "newspaper articles", medical receipts, vet receipts, and my son's paper trail from grade school to graduation - and has exploded to over ten file cabinet draws! It is a arduous task of digging through. I have gone through a lot of it already. Some things were very easy to discard- especially "dated" items, or things I feel I will never do again. It was interesting to see what things that were hard to part with- such as the vet receipts of one of my cats who recently died. But, I emptied out the file, and feel better doing it. ( I think things that give a tug of sadness should be removed too).

I would like to remove a two-drawer file cabinet from my bedroom by the weekend- as I don't think/feel it belongs there.

I have thrown out about 5 boxes (the size which reams of paper come in) of just paper ! And all of it was thrown in a recycle collection bin! This counts as ONE thing. And it is okay with me. ;-)