Simply..getting bored with....

1/5/2015

..Kondoing my papers. I expect you are also bored with me Kondoing my papers, so I have vowed to have them finished with by my next Friday's post. It will be such a relief! And I certainly have not missed or even given a thought to the tons which have already left the house! Well, maybe not tons...but far more than I knew I had.

I have searched for more words of wisdom from Marie....how about her three categories for papers to keep - currently in use, needed for a limited period of time, and must be kept indefinitely.

Can I really throw away all the rest? She says her basic principle for sorting papers is to throw them all away.

She says it is fun.

Well doing the clothes was fun, doing the books was fun (tiring fun) but for me, doing the papers is not fun. It's exhausting. Decision making fatigue is setting in, though as she says they will, my decision making muscles are strengthening which is just as well because I have so many photographs! But I am getting ahead of myself. I have reduced the six box files from the loft to one and a half. I have a small shelf of eight ring binders to do then it's on to Komono (miscellaneous). but not before I've had a little celebration for clutter clearing the papers.

Hmm. Any suggestions?

8 Comments

julia

1/5/2015 09:18:57 am

i'm thinking....a nice glass of your favorite wine, a bit of good cheese and biscuits, flowers, a piece of really good chocolate.....or....a new journal from that favorite paper store of yours.....good on ya, freda!

Freda

2/5/2015 01:51:27 am

One of the things I got rid of was a pile of unused journals! So I can't celebrate by buying more paper...the glass of good wine and a nice cheese really appeals.

Gail

1/5/2015 07:33:43 pm

Even when the envision finished goal is pleasant, the task has to be slogged through. So I'm seconding Julia's idea of drinking wine.....maybe if you drink enough, you'll feel embolden to toss the papers at once, out the loft window -teehee

Freda

2/5/2015 01:53:22 am

I am indeed getting bolder as I go...maybe?

cath

1/5/2015 11:51:54 pm

Like you I find Kondoing paper exhausting. I really liked the way I approached clothing in very small categories.
And books, books spark so much joy to me I sailed right through them even while seriously weeding.

But paper. So many different categories to decide about. This week I went through essays I collected over the years - in preparation for a reading drought or retirement - and articles from magazines which seemed interesting when I torn them out to be read later. I've only a stack of 10cm left so that is satisfying.

Now on to all the stuff I wrote myself, from diaries to poetry, published columns and articles, unpublished but finished stuff and promising starters, my reflective writing. So much.. no idea yet how to approach it.. sigh.

And celebrating: if I were almost finished I think I would hang a string of bunting made from the last papers that passed my hands and feel proud and happy.

Freda

2/5/2015 01:58:10 am

Well done with the essays! Have you yet divided the rest into the categories you've listed? Then you could treat one category at a time....And are you praising yourself for having written all that good stuff? Don't give up, and start making the bunting so that you have a good representative string of it when you're done!

Freda

2/5/2015 02:02:31 am

Also Cath, some of it might come under sentimental - which should be dealt with last? So that would cut it down for now...good luck.

cath

3/5/2015 01:13:12 am

Your advice is really helpful. I've looked again at this category (while not being able to sleep so I used my time well I think..) and have made much smaller subcategories. I've postponed all with sentimental attachments to komono. I've now a long list of paper-items but at least I can take baby steps again.

Simply..getting bored with....

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