Project Say Something: Throw it Out
We added a new member to our little group this week. Amy from Enigma Wrapped Mystery has joined us to ask and answer our weekly questions. Since we’re all about trial by fire, she gave the topic for this week:
What is one thing that you have and should throw away, but can't? Why or Why not?
Hi. I’m Kim. I’m a pack rat.
In other words, probably a good 60% of everything I own! Time and time again, I have thrown things out only to wish, down the road however far, that I would have kept whatever it was. So I go in cycles. I keep and then every so often, I purge. But ultimately, I keep. A lot.
I keep every card and every letter or note I am ever sent/given. I have every one since high school, some from my childhood. I probably shouldn’t keep every single one. I’ve even printed out some emails I’ve been sent through time. They’re organized, they’re sorted, they’re in specific binders and books. (I have never once denied that I am a freak.) I have no real reason to hold on to all of them.
Or my tassles from high school and college graduations. Why in the world do people keep those? Really? I have no idea why I do. But the idea of throwing them out just seems wrong.
An old Disney sweatshirt I was given right after high school. It hasn’t fit in a million years. But I’m sentimental and I can’t throw things out I’ve been given. I’ve only recently learned to get rid of things I’ve been given, that sometimes it really is okay to do so.
Yeah, the Disney sweatshirt is my answer. I should finally part with it. But I can’t.