Trash it all and learn to let go

Since I had nothing better to do last night, I decided to tackle some much over do house cleaning. For the past couople months I've been slowly but surely moving out of my bedroom and moving myself into a much larger room in my basement. After many trips to Ikea, I've furnished the room downstairs and I've even bought a bed for it.

Anyway, last night I started the task of moving a LOT of my personal gear into this new room and in doing so I'd come to the conslusion that I have way too much crap. I could not believe the many useless things I have collected over the years. For example, I had stacks of unopened junkmail (and some of it was over a year old), magazines, newspapers etc..... I have absolutely NO idea why I had kept such stuff. Maybe I thought I'd get around to it or I would find a use for it. In addition to that paper junk, my closet/drawers were literally overflowing with clothing. It's funny I'm the type who never feels as if I have enough clothing, but my closet/drawers say otherwise. I don't know why I feel the need to have so much clothing and to keep buying it.

Being tired of this mess of junk, I spent the better part of last night sorting through my paper junk and eventually trashing EVERYTHING. As for my clothing, I've sorted everything out and filled three trash bags with my unwanted clothing. I figured what's the point of keeping this stuff if I never wear it. Also, with the hurricanes that keep hitting the gulf coast, I'm sure I can donate it to some charity or if needed I'll drop it off at a Goodwill store or Salvation Army.

I will say all that sorting/trashing took a LOT of time and it did get annoying after a while and I don't want to have to keep doing such things every so often. I need to learn not to hold onto things so much and to just let things go.

Now the real question is.......was this blog really worth writing or should I have let it go?