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Post by medusahair on Jun 23, 2014 23:25:54 GMT
I am glad you have gotten through the nosalgia box
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Post by drsarah on Jun 30, 2014 21:08:34 GMT
Medusahair: Oh, boy, me too! You don't know how much. The Nostalgia Boxes have been... kind of the ultimate symbol of everything I still had to do. All the stuff I was hanging onto because I couldn't bear to get rid of it, while at the same time I couldn't bear to go through it... I couldn't bear to deal with it, because that meant admitting to myself that all those parts of my past I was trying to memorialise really were the past, really were just those bits of mementos and nothing more. Going through those boxes - even to keep most of the stuff - meant finally having to face the need to say goodbye to those parts of my life.
I've done it, and now I'm free of them.
Anyway, here's my report on the final week:
24th, 25th & 26th - missed. (What can I say? It was a genuinely busy week, and I did get some other stuff done that really needed doing.)
27th - another file from the file drawer, and started on the box file of old instructions.
28th - finished the instructions file and went back to the file drawer
29th and 30th - more of the file drawer
Aaaaaand done! Not with the decluttering, but with the month. Well, it was hard work, but oh boy was it worth it! Right - now I am going to take a break from decluttering for a bit and focus on other stuff. That was a fitting end to the first half of this year!
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