organize my house

did I not think of that earlier?! I just moved 5 MORE boxes out of my mom’s shed and into my house so that I could go through them and try to get rid of some of the stuff…and they were ALL boxes of just miscellaneous papers I’ve “needed to file and organize”....some of them were 12 YEARS OLD! Needless to say, lots of crap I just don’t need anymore. But I have this weird “I’m afraid to throw that away because somewhere somehow some day I might need to know that”. So I came across this article – what I do and don’t need to keep (pretty much ALL of it I can throw away), and what to do with the stuff I do need (scan it, or download it from my online statements, then burn it onto cds). DUH! Today I managed to shred 2 bags full of old crap I don’t need anymore. (And there’s PLENTY more where that came from!) That felt really good. Plus, I started a list (on my PC) of a sort of history of all those closed accounts and old health insurance companies, JUST IN CASE I ever need to know that information – now I have the numbers and names and dates in one neat little paragraph, so if I ever did actually have to find the info again, I know how to get it and what company to look at for it. Hurray!