get rid of all my clutter

We recently had our basement flooded and I was forced to do throw things out.
My flat mates and I got into a fantatic de-cluttering-mode. Afterwards I realized that all of the boxes, bags etc. filled with clutter that I used to have are now gone. I still have some untidy drawers and two big boxes filled with paper and financial stuff I don’t like to deal with. Apart from that I sorted out all the mysterious boxes I didn’t even want to know what might be inside.
Yeah!

I have been working on this and found that it’s true: by getting rid of stuff you don’t need, you make room for new things (which could be much better than whatever it was you parted with).

It helps to think of the stuff as “kibble”, like Philip K. Dick described it in “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” – the idea of the stuff lying around in a post-apocalyptic world makes me want to get rid of it FAST.

Last week I went through my old notes and stuff from university. I had a hard time throwing it all away and I couldn’t bring myself to part with everything. This is probably because it means acknowledging that (a) my time as a student is over (about time after 6 years) and (b) I will never get around to really gain an in depth understanding of for example Climatology (not that having the book around would have helped there).