I keep everything. And the manual to everything. And the Spanish manual to everything.
This untamed pile of papers, disks, locks, cords, bags, and used batteries reeks of amateur hoarding. Here on my floor is the assembly information for a desk and chair I had in college, the booklet that came with a TV I gave away last spring, the receipt for those speakers that broke, a mouse pad I haven't used in four years, random wires that go to nothing, the packaging material for my smoke alarm, and six floppy disks from middle and high school marked "Do Not Discard"...that I will now be discarding. (Sorry, teenage self, but without a floppy disk reader, it is worthless to keep your 10th grade science fair project papers. Plus, if I wanted to know that RoundUp weed killer wasn't harmful to humans, I could just check the label. Or the website.)
When my friends and I had a recent discussion about our Lenten sacrifices, one friend told us about a woman who had given up one thing each day for all 40 days of Lent. The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to do what this woman had done. This blog will document my daily purging. Sometimes it will be just one thing, other times a group of similar things. But every day, there will be one less thing sitting in my house and one more thing in the hands of someone who needs or wants it.
-'Empty Room, No Regrets,' Sloane Crosley
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