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I have a problem. I am very, very bad at throwing things away. I am also not good at dealing with mail and putting things away and all of that being-a-tidy-person stuff. The public part of the house I usually somewhat tolerable because there is a small, but non-zero chance that people might visit. My office, however, bears the cost of the rest of the house being more presentable. Just look at this pathetic display.

Today, rather that do something fun, like read or get coffee or go shopping for shit I don’t need and have no way to store I started tackling the mess in the office. I estimate I made a 10-20% dent in the stacks of crap. Mostly old mail, financials statements and the like, birthday and Christmas cards, and so on. The mail is at the same time both the most difficult in that there are hundreds of individual items that need to be reviewed and the easiest in that there is little to no emotional attachment to the items and so they can be kept or tossed due to criteria like, “Will I ever have to have this if I am audited?”

There are substantially more difficult items in the stacks and boxes. However, once in a while I run across something fun. Like, for example, my first ever paycheck as an employed adult for three whole hours of work as a co-op at Cypress before I graduated and went full-time on December 26th, 2000. I never cashed it. Because I am dumb.