Donate/Sell/Trash all unecessary belongings that I dont love/dont inspire me

I’ve been going through my bedroom more and more… focusing on my shelving (which is made up of a series of little cube cubbies that I love. I’ve gotten one full 9 cube section finished and managed to create 5 new purposed cubes… that’s right, I only had 4 cubes worth of stuff that I actually loved/used/needed in a 9 cube space! What a waste!

I’ve now created 2 cubes for Christian to use at my place (one for clothing, one for other stuff). 2 cubes to keep “office supplies” like my three hole punch, all my sharpies, tape, scissors, sheet protectors, spare paper, etc. A spot for me to store all my novel ideas and writing projects until I can better organize them and a spot for my books on self improvement (which before didn’t have a home).

I also moved my misc. wires, cables, etc. into a out of reach cube since I very rarely need them.

One of the big things I cleared out was old cookbooks that I’ve never touched!! How silly have I been for holding on to them? Also a couple books that I really didn’t care that much about or would never read again.

I also through out some old journals of mine… back from when I was with Brad. Opening them up and seeing me talk about him… the pain of being with him, trying to appease him, the stupidity of marrying him… just watching the peaks and falls all over again was hard for me. I decided it was time to let them go… especially since they’d been sitting in the relationship corner of my home AND bedroom all this time!! No wonder why I’m with a wonderful guy and still afraid I’ll end up with Brad (or rather a Brad type) again! All that negative energy sitting there.

In fact, now that I realize that, I’m throwing out all my old journals. Including the one I’m writing in now since it’s full of stuff about Aaron! Time to start afresh!

After reading this book called Clearing Your Clutter With Feng Shui, I have a total new look at everything in my house… I think it’s really going to help open things up in there.

I’ve been working on my bedroom cubbies and I’ve gone through 5 of them and discovered 3 cubbies worth of free space. Two I gave to Christian and the other one I turned into a spot to put office stuff I use (3 hole punch, markers, tape, etc.)

Can’t wait to clear out all of them and watch the room blossom!!

The books is probably the thing I’m looking most forward to. Clearing out the old and making way for the new!!

And it doesn’t inspire me.

In fact, it has left me even more frustrated and not wanting to clean. And at that point… what’s the point?

I need to find a new way to go about this. It’s not that it doesn’t still need to get done, but clearly… this goal isn’t helping me achieve it anymore.

was a lot easier than I suspected. I think I’ll be doing this more and more often now that I know that. :)

I finished unpacking my last two boxes. Yes, that’s right… I’m finally officially moved in fully. :P I also packed up a box full of stuff to take up to St. Vincent’s. Including a bunch of picture frames and stuff that reminded me of my exhusband.

Things are starting to get done slowly but surely around here and that makes me really happy. It’s going to take time to get everything exactly how I want it, but it WILL get there.

I talked to Christian about how part of the reason why I am doing this is to make room for him should we one day move in together. I told him that’s where I saw this going and he said he liked that. That’s where he sees it going to. And he seemed really happy that I wanted to make room for us to have balance in our life together.

Fuck, I love that boy so much.

And was very successful at it. I moved here only what I truly loved and thought I would need. But now that I’ve been here, I’ve changed so much. And with this drastic shift in my life, my priorities and what I want in my life have changed completely.

It’s time to re go through everything again and resort out my priorities. When I leave here, I’ll need room for Christian and his things as well. Plus, I just don’t need all this extra “stuff” in my life.

I’m going to try spending 15 minutes a day doing this until it’s all done again.

I have a big pile of papers in a box that at one time or another were important enough to keep. Most of them still are (one of those “job hazards” of being a writer, I guess) But in going through them looking for a couple of very specific things, I was able to pull out a sizeable stack of papers I no longer needed—doctors that were covered under previous health insurance, rules and forms from my grad school…

Hooray for the recycle bin. It wasn’t much, but I’ll never have to deal with them again.

I sorted through a lot of my possession before I moved, I know I did. And yet somehow my apartment is still full of stuff, and I know a lot of it needs to be discarded in some form or another.

One of the problems is that during the last sort through, I did a fairly good job of getting rid of the things I actively disliked/didn’t want, I didn’t really have the time or ability to go through and sort out the difference between what I “love/am inspired by” versus what I purely “don’t mind having around”.

So now it’s that “don’t mind having around” pile I need to tackle, which is a much more introspective & time consuming process. But I’d really like to get through it, soon, so that I can drop this goal as complete and worthwhile, and just keep up the “discardia” goal for regular maintenance.

Home from vacation. Back to work.

Took a load of books to Housing Works Used Book Cafe It ended up being quite close to the subway, with a handy table right near the front door for dropping off donations. I was surprised by how easy the whole process was. Sometimes things are only big tasks because we’ve built them up so much in our head, and this was definitely one of those times.

So now that I have an apartment (Or almost have an apartment… not counting any chickens yet people), I feel like I finally have a chance to put some brain power on all the other things I am needing to accomplish before the move.

The ex and I have about 4 or 5 boxes worth of books that are up for donation. Tonight I looked at the new york city wasteless donation finder and will probably be making a few trips over the next couple of weeks, leaving boxes in places where I think they are most likely to do well.