stop being a pack rat

I had a cat allergy attack and almost went to an Emergency Room a while ago. I had all my stuff in my room. I don’t want to die next to a bunch of magazines and papers. I’m cleaning old papers a few sheets at a time. I am really working on it!
Unfortunately, my bedroom is still looking like a storage with bags filled with various papers… :(

Why do I always think I’m going to need all this stuff later on? It’s ridiculous! I don’t need some book report I did in high school. Although it is fun to read it and see how simple my writing style was and how much I have improved. Also, it feels nice to recycle it after I am done reading it. I figure, if I get rid of things a little at a time at least I am making some progress, even if it takes me years.

stop being a pack rat and clear out all of the things we really don’t need and sell those we can to help pay off any debt…

I have this problem with clutter in my room, and it is because i have SO much stuff I keep around because I think it will be of some value to me later. I hold on to so many old documents, school work, pictures, objects because I take everything as a sentimental value. I don’t know what to get rid of!!!

I’m going to go through my room and get rid of everything I don’t need! :D

i got rid of 3 more boxes before i move! if i can get rid of about 5 more, i’ll have just about the basics when i move.

I keep destroying things.
Which is a bad thing.
But then I don’t have them anymore.
Which is the (only) (teensie-weensie) good part.

I’m trying to reduce my clothes. It’s rather convenient now that I can wear my boyfriend’s cothes- YES! He has more clothes than I do! – so I can wear his at home, which is very comfortable, and mine to go out. Still, I have to find the “right” kind of things- I think I should make a list of essentials. I find I have a few tops I don’t really need or that don’t fulfil their services- like long-sleeved T-shirts that are neither have a nice neckline nor are long enough to keep me warm (the latter being the point, in case someone was wondering). I want to replace them with better, nicer-looking ones.

I currently own one jogging pants (not that I ever go jogging, mind), one blue summer (thin) pants, one red warmer pants, one undefinably grey-pink (well, yeah) lowcut pants, one jeans I almost never wear because… I don’t wear jeans, a lot, and it’s pretty tight too… and one very thin clingy viscosy black pants where I closed the zipper with stitches because it broke…

I think that was it, my long trousers… if you’ve counted, you’ll come up with six in total which I think is pretty good.
In fact… when was the last time I bought trousers? Must be two years ago or something…well, the blue pants is kinda ripped off, and as I said, the black one’s technically broken.

Tees are another issue… i find i have too many i don’t actually enjoy wearing… should change! and a lot of them aren’t warm

socks too… but then, come one… socks are so pretty! and underwear too!

Ah yes… the heart of a pack rat cannot change :)

yay! i did it! now that my big college dorm move is looming, i cleaned out my desk. though the outside looks a bit cluttered, i sorted about 50 lbs worth of silly stored papers. because i know i can’t take it with me, and i’ll never use it. woo hoo!

I keep keeping thing because I “might use them one day”.
Usually I don’t, can’t, but as long as I don’t force myself to actively throw them out and tell myself over and over they’re no use- I can’t put them away.