"You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go."
-'Empty Room, No Regrets,' Sloane Crosley

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Day 36: Manuals, Locks, and a Few Floppy Disks

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.)

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