Last month, I went through some of my old stuff. It wasn’t voluntary but something my mom asked me to do. She wanted to clear some space and some of my “old” boxes were apparently occupying some “space”. My first reaction, just throw em away… Somehow, something changed – killer curiosity crawled in – and there I was sneezing out the dust, fanning away more dust.
As I began the archaeological job, I discovered or rather re-discovered things that I am compelled to categorise as below.
Category 1: What Was I Thinking
I found “love letters” from old flames. Ewww! Why had I not burnt them already? I found folded-around-the-edge cards, cards that said “good luck”, “congratulations”, “happy birthday”, “bottoms up” and what not, cards from my family, cards from my “old flames”, cards from people. [Latest update: they are now ash that have vanished into thin air PHEW]
Category 2: Thank God These are Still Here
I found my old Hello Kitty jewelry box and in it, among boring jewelry trinkets, a bracelet and a necklace – both long forgotten gifts. I found my very old but still working hair dryer (that I had won at some fair).
Category 3: Books
I found books, books I thought I had lost for good. Books by Murakami, Ian McEwan, Maugham, Harper Lee, and even Erich Segal’s Love Story, to name a few.
Category 4: Paper Notebooks
A whole heap of UNUSED, UNWRITTEN, UNUSED fresh notebooks. What were they doing there? And what do I do with them now?? Do people even write on those things anymore???
Category 5: What Were They Thinking
This box said “gifts”. So there was a pen-stand (with yachts floating in the water) that hardly fit two pens. There were some fancy photo-frames (I am Chandler from Friends when it comes to photos, so photo-frames for me is always one TOOOOO many). Then there was this cute what-looked-like-a-small-pink-china-bowl Candle and may I add without a wick!!
can completely relate to.
i, predetermined of throwing off all over used stuffs from my closet, when i go through them i feel like making space for them instead.
I write in my paper notebook every day! I’m old school like that. 🙂
Over the last few years I have been decluttering my garage, and found some unfulfilled dreams I had forgotten about! I’d saved paperwork from a Life Coach School, SWIHA, that I was interested in attending based on Iyanla Vanzants reality show back then, Starting Over House! I started fulfilling those old garage dreams at 47, and am now a Life Coach! Who knows what I will find next! Sometimes there are treasures from our past!