Stuff Purge Day 3 – Major copout

I had really high hopes of going through a whole basket of old crap and throwing stuff out tonight.  (it would have brought great joy to my wife).  Alas, I did not get that far, so for day three, it has to be the following:

Huge stack of mail and papers that accumulated on the desk

That’s about as exciting as reading a piece of proposed legislation – minus the aneurysm most likely brought on by such an activity.  Still, the exercise seemed to be fairly productive as represented by the following photo of the bin full of paper

I am ashamed that, in the process, I managed to break the shredder in new and glorious ways.  Heaven knows if I’ll be able to undo that mess.  Oh well, it’s still progress.  Every little bit helps and I still hope to have removed a lot of clutter and stuff from my life at the end of this 30 days.

On a side note, forcing myself to go through all these papers caused me to start pulling together all the papers from 2008 so I am ready for taxes (as soon as I get my @#$! W2).  See, I’ve already started my folder:

Woo Hoo! Tax stuff!

Ok, now I’ve brought up taxes.  That tends to get the budding libertarian ( political ideology – not specifically the party) bent out of shape.  I just read the wonderful piece of caca that is the current “stimulus bill”, and I can only say that it’s not impressing me (except for comedic value), but all that, I’m afraid is a conversation for another day and time.

Back to the task at hand, we’ll put another check mark on the chart for my 30 day downsizing of stuff.  (Yippee!)  I’m still going to tackle that basket full of junk that is mostly trash, but not tonight.  I believe I’m tired.  More tomorrow….

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