everything you own in a box to the left

I'm pretty obsessive/compulsive. Sometimes this affliction makes it so I can't throw shit away. Like.. if I have a total piece of junk in my hands.. especially if I've owned the junk for several years.. I can't toss it out because a little voice in my head gets all sentimental about it and I start getting anxious because I feel like I might need said junk at some point in the future or I might want to see it again at least.

I came up with a good idea on how to get around this craziness of mine recently. I was at my mom's house going through all this junk over the holidays. every time I started to get sentimental about something I wanted to throw away, I'd take a picture of it and then bag it for the dump. It worked really well.

If you want, you can take a look at some of my junk.

Going through this stuff that I hadn't looked at for years gave me a glimpse of what a little homo I was. I found a whole mess of craft stuff.. everything from latch-hook rugs to counted-cross-stitch. Note the half-done Marvin the Martian project in the sewing-hoop... at least I was just sewing that shit and not contemplating a fucking tattoo!!

I'm gonna use this technique going forward. Nothing makes me feel better than minimizing the clutter in my world.