I want to just throw away all my stuff. Everything I don’t need. The ratio of “stuff” I don’t need to stuff I do need is probably 5 to 1. Having said that, I can’t ever seem to let any of the uneeded “stuff” go. Not sure if that makes me a packrat or just sentimental. I’m sure there’s something to be said about holding on to the movie ticket stub from the first date with the love of your life, but really what are you going to do with it besides look at it and say, “Oh yeah, we saw Look Who’s Talking Too.” These are pretty much useless other than to remind you how much movie tickets were back then and what was out at the time.
I have a whole box dedicated to things of this type. I have ticket stubs, train passes, airplane tickets, bottle caps, rocks, guitar picks, receipts, etc. Among all this useless stuff I also have quite a few journals. I used to write in paper journals a lot. Almost daily. This was before I ever discovered the great lines of code that are now known as blogs.
So I asked the question of whether we should toss or keep journals. My reasoning for tossing them out is pretty much when do I ever read them? I remember going over several friends’ places and noting that none of them had very much “stuff” and seemed to live in a much cleaner space than I. Cleaner = empty, in this case.