I have a slight problem. Whenever I get mail, or flyers, or magazines, or most anything else on paper, it tends to get tossed off onto the kitchen table, or top of the fridge, or some other out-of-the-way place.
So, after eight years of accumulating stuff this way, I finally went around and collected all of the bits and pieces lying around the apartment and I’m left with:
Now I have to sort them into three piles: stuff I can throw away, stuff I have to shred first and can then throw away (old bank statements, credit card bills, etc.), and then the stuff I really want to keep (tax records).
Sigh, sometimes I feel like I skipped the qualification exam for being an adult…
Well, if you did, you’re part of an entire generation that sidestepped the same thing. :-)
You have a better idea of what you’re doing than I do, not that I suspect that’s any real news…
As far as being a packrat about all that stuff, you should see how far back my family’s records go — just before my taxes were done, I was rifling thru some of my mother’s receipts (how she ends up with my stuff, I’ll never know), and I discovered some of her father’s bank statements from about 1958.
Still think *you* hoard a lot? :-)