Today I came across the programs from our month’s adventures. Now that I have an electronic copy of these, I can throw them away. Isn’t technology grand?
December and June are my months of excavation. I dump out the drawers and files and baskets and try and make sense of it all. Some days it feels like the mail is the enemy… an endless supply of papers invading my house. I learned long ago that the mail must be dealt with every day or pretty soon we become candidates for some talk show on Hoarding. I still haven’t learned to throw away personal letters or cards. I hoard correspondence in carefully marked boxes in my closet. If you write me a good e-mail, I’ll print that out and save it, too. We’re all allowed a loony habit, aren’t we?
In the spirit of things, I cleaned out the Cub Scout closet at the church tonight. There were newspapers from 1999, a comforter, lumber, countless dried up glue sticks and 20 skeins of yarn.
It feels good to be free from excess… for now, anyway. When June comes I’ll be amazed again at how much paraphernalia we’ve accumulated.