Ever seen "Hoarders"??? You know those shows where the people have kept everything for the last 50 years without throwing out anything? I think I have a touch...and I think I am an electronic hoarder too... I have 1060 emails in my inbox right now......and I just emptied a lot out. I have 106 sub-folders with anywhere from 5 to over a hundred emails in each of them. I think there is something wrong with that......I think. I have 258 unread emails........What the heck do I think I am going to miss if I just hit delete?
It's kind of like I have this history in email and maybe someday I'm going to put it together.....kind of like the boxes of stuff in the basement that I'm going to put together of my kids...You know, their school stuff and all....... Did I mention that my oldest child will be 32 next week? My youngest will be 23 next month.... but I think I'm going to get organized....maybe this spring......it could be a good retirement project, if I ever retire. Don't see that happening anytime soon.....Maybe I could hire someone?? My sweet husband wants to toss it all...."Just throw it away!! It's junk!" He doesn't understand...I have to let it go a little at a time.
Macaroni Christmas trees made in first grade, homework assignments with an "A" in bold red, Valentine hearts with "I Love You Mommy"....I can let the macaroni Christmas trees go.....(but that's a little bit of history now that we don't say "Christmas" in schools anymore!!! So maybe I should hold on to that!) Maybe I could get rid of the homework, maybe...the Valentine's?? By the time I get to them, I'm sitting in the middle of the floor wanting my babies back...then, of course, I can't throw away anything...I just have to come back to it and try again later.....
I will say that most of my pictures are organized, but many are not in albums..which brings me to digitizing, I want to digitize and organize and burn a CD of every hairdo I have ever had (which have been MANY) I could call it the history of my hair.....and there have been some pretty awful hair styles.....but mostly I want my progeny to know who the people ARE in the pictures. I remember growing up and having boxes full of pictures not knowing who most of them were. Mom would name them all off while I tried to capture it on the back, but there are still many more I don't know than what I do know. There is nothing sadder than going to an auction and seeing old family pictures......I always wonder who they were and why are they here being auctioned off in boxes of frames....hmmmm, probably hoarders who died with all their projects yet to do.....
