zomg, packing

[hermionesviolin]

Today (Sunday) I have been v. good and worked on packing rather than the zillion writeups I wanna do.  Okay, there were breaks, but they consisted of: church in the morning, cleaning elsewhere in the house, eating/making/buying food, CSI: Weekends, and brief breaks for sanity and/or overheating.

I almost enjoy the organizationalness of packing, but the whole process of going through stuff I haven't looked at in ages and figuring out what to do with it all is tiring.  Though with so much stuff, the separate piles and boxes can get a bit overwhelming as well.

My biggest concern, I think, is what to do with all my old writings.  All the reading material can get boxed up and actually read (and then passed on), but I have so many notebooks (we're talking dating back to high school, maybe earlier) with beginnings of stuff, and I dread even beginning tackle the piles and piles of that.

Throughout the day, my brother kept on my case, which at first was the opposite of motivating, but I actually got a lot done -- yes, in large part due to him.

Am v. glad Monday is a holiday so I can hopefully get the difficult packing done and be left with the easy "put books in boxes" type packing for evenings afterwork.  Really hope to move on Saturday.  Must call landlord on Monday to remind him about the windows.  (My current plan is that I'm moving in on Saturday regardless, but I would really like to have that item off my To Worry About list as I'm sure I'll have a slew of other apartment-related items on that list.)

Comments

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I also have issues of knowing what to do with paper. I bought a filing cabinet and have all my old journals and notes and stories and all that stuff filed away.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

*not* knowing

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I bought a filing cabinet some years ago -- it just got used for storage like boxes do, rather than actually containing hanging file folders and aiding me in keeping my stuff in order :)

I have so many notebooks which have like 8 pages used, so there's a space concern. And I know I'm going to end up wanting to salvage these stories even though I'm crap at writing stuff I come up with *now* nevermind the less good stuff of yesteryear -- but of course I'm not going to just send them all to the recycling sight unseen. So I suspect I will be boxing them all up to read through and trash in my apartment.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I know exactly what you mean. I used to have a bunch of partially written in notebooks. I just tore out the pages, kept the ones I wanted (trimming the edges to fit neatly into folders) and tossing the ones I didn't. It took a wee bit of time, but I felt so much better after it was done. And then I could find whatever I wanted, too.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Last night I went through all my old writings, and I did do that for the ones where I was literally using less than 10 pages in a notebook (often it was only 1 or 2 pages even). The pile of notebooks I was then not taking with me was pretty impressive.

I still need to actually sort through all the writings -- I'll probably type up a lot of them, and hopefully be able to bring myself to trash some of them -- but that can wait; for now the concern is to not move eight million pounds of stuff (esp. since I'm moving into a second-floor apartment).