I feel your pain! About six years ago I moved from my big office a smaller (but nicer) one. We transformed the older office into a cooking space / airbnb. But what it meant was that I had to go through a lot of STUFF! Like you, oodles of magazines went right into the bin. Luckily my clippings were all in binders, and so easy to just move. What pained me was ditching original research etc. for my dissertation. Note cards anyone? Also, boxes and boxes of cds, video tapes, and other obsolete media. The books, though, were the hardest. No one seems to want them. But in the end, it was very liberating, as you say. I feel free in my bright clean space with no 'stuff' to distract.
It CAN be so freeing! And when I stopped to think about how often anyone ever asked me to see a clip (answer: never), I realized I was only saving them for myself. And then I realized that I can take a photo, hold onto the memory, and let go of the scrap of paper/box of magazines/whatever. It does work for an awful lot of stuff.
Good for you! Omg. Been there. I hope you love your new house. I threw out magazines, donated books but kept 4 “ hope chests of writings and memories and clips…” starting to sort, two years later.
I love reading all the old pieces of my life. Good, bad, and indifferent! You go DJ!
Owen told us you had broken your ankle. Gosh we hope you're not in too much pain, Dianne. As you know, we sold and left our beautiful Montana custom-built home of 44 years in October. Rather than move to a new permanent location, we opted to live in Hawaii for a year to recover from all you described one has to do during an epic move. So I've decided to write a Substack Newsletter about our lives here and how we woked to make this dream happen. "So You Want to Live in Hawaii" is coming soon!
Have you thought about transferring everything in to Evernote
I feel your pain! About six years ago I moved from my big office a smaller (but nicer) one. We transformed the older office into a cooking space / airbnb. But what it meant was that I had to go through a lot of STUFF! Like you, oodles of magazines went right into the bin. Luckily my clippings were all in binders, and so easy to just move. What pained me was ditching original research etc. for my dissertation. Note cards anyone? Also, boxes and boxes of cds, video tapes, and other obsolete media. The books, though, were the hardest. No one seems to want them. But in the end, it was very liberating, as you say. I feel free in my bright clean space with no 'stuff' to distract.
I wish I could get some the magazines you didn't want to throw away :)
It CAN be so freeing! And when I stopped to think about how often anyone ever asked me to see a clip (answer: never), I realized I was only saving them for myself. And then I realized that I can take a photo, hold onto the memory, and let go of the scrap of paper/box of magazines/whatever. It does work for an awful lot of stuff.
Good for you! Omg. Been there. I hope you love your new house. I threw out magazines, donated books but kept 4 “ hope chests of writings and memories and clips…” starting to sort, two years later.
I love reading all the old pieces of my life. Good, bad, and indifferent! You go DJ!
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Owen told us you had broken your ankle. Gosh we hope you're not in too much pain, Dianne. As you know, we sold and left our beautiful Montana custom-built home of 44 years in October. Rather than move to a new permanent location, we opted to live in Hawaii for a year to recover from all you described one has to do during an epic move. So I've decided to write a Substack Newsletter about our lives here and how we woked to make this dream happen. "So You Want to Live in Hawaii" is coming soon!