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Cleaning up your life/past
Does anyone else have a space where all their personal clutter collects? Between roughly 6th grade and 13th grade (first year of post-secondary), all of my clutter ended up getting stuffed into my desk's drawers. This included a wide variety of objects from casette tapes, school notes/tests, social/love notes (many of which were somewhat painful to review), old electronics, magazines for masturbation, guitar tabs, sheet music, magazines, books, a ton of photos (numbering over 500) and even more sports cards, computer discs and a ton of other shit.
Today, on a suggestion from my mother, I decided to take cleaning a step further and purge my desk of all the old life shit that was worthless. Basically, if it wasn't some kind of fact sheet, photo, art/office supply, or something currently worthwhile, it went in the garbage. Most of it was paper and glass, and I filled a garbage bag on the desk alone. I am definitely a type of hoarder so I shudder to imagine what a similar cleaning of my bookshelf, closet, and end table would show. However, my desk was definitely the most full of trash, so I thought that would make a good starting point. The stuff in those two places is a bit more recent and probably less personal.
So to give this thread a point, have you ever cleared out a space full of personal objects collected over the years? What sorts of things did you find? Did the removal of physical objects reminiscent of your past give you some kind of closure for those time periods, if you needed it at all?
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