Sunday, February 18, 2007

Letting Go Experiment: Month 8

I must confess that this month I am about 15 items behind in my one-a-day letting-go process. But that's not a problem, because I tend to let go of items in batches, as I go about sorting through closets, shelves, drawers, and other stashes of stuff. The hardest thing to let go of this month so far has been my subscription to Poets and Writers, a magazine that intriques me though I never seem to get around to reading it. Perhaps I'll pick it up again in a year or two when I have more time to devote to writing.

The best thing I did for myself this month in this Letting-Go Experiment involved a purchase rather than a discard. I have a huge problem with the rapid accumulation of junk mail that seems to land on my dining table, which is close to my front door. A couple of weeks ago, I purchased a shredder designed especially for the quick and convenient disposal of junk mail and other papers with personal information in them - mail that could compromise one's privacy. Well, I put this handy dandy shredder right near the table where I have been dumping my mail each day, and now I immediately go through the day's mail and run all the junk through the shredder.

What system do you use to handle your junk mail? How could a shredder help you conquer your clutter?

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