Last night, as I was getting ready to pack my bag for work today, I got fed up with my clutter. All the empty envelopes and scraps of paper, some of which have stayed with me since before I graduated college last May, they had to go.
The problem was that I was looking for a pen, but couldn’t find one. So I dumped my whole bag out and got rid of the trash.
Which is when I realized how much stuff I carry with me every day.
I carry this crap EVERY DAY
All of which I honestly feel is necessary, even if I don’t use it every day:
- Nice Panasonic headphones
- Ancient, big, heavy iBook
- iBook charger
- work-branded thumb drive
- Lego-shaped thumb drive
- Four books
- Two iPods
- iPhone
- No fewer than six Molskine notebooks (each of which, I swear, serves a different purpose)
It’s no wonder my back is sore most days.
The fact of the matter is that I need to further declutter. Hard decisions need to be made about what stays home.
Because I never did find that pen.
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Man, you DO need to de-clutter, I hear you! I have to ask though: why an iPhone and 2 iPods? DJ or something?
You’ll have to forgive the massive delay between comment and reply – I basically have an iPhone and two iPods because I change my mind about what I want to listen to halfway through the day – and none of my iPods has enough space to store everything.