The past
For the next few days I will be scanning all my old school papers and notes and such. It will be great to finally rid the garage of all those old papers. I can’t imagine trying doing this all with a flatbed scanner.
I keep running into certain things that I don’t know if I should archive or not: notes and memorabilia from old girlfriends.
A part of me wants to preserve those memories because they were precious at the time. However, those chapters of my life are LONG over.. what is the point of keeping all that stuff? Plus, how would I feel if (in the future) my wife were keeping things from an old boyfriend.
Hmm.. it is such a hard decision to make. I have a box of stuff from different eras of my life. I don’t want to delete those memories; remember what happens in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind!
Yet I also don’t want to live in the past.. not when there is so much hope in the future.
I’m running into the same problem with receipts too. For some reason it is REALLY hard for me to delete them. I don’t crave the actual paper, just the info on it.. just in case I need to research something I guess.
I wish I could pay someone to scan all this junk for me– it is taking a long time!