A Slow Journey Through An Old Box

I've started to slowly move things back into place in the house, sorting through them as I go. Tonight, I moved my computer table back into the spare bedroom (my office) and I threw out the contents of one drawer, one box, and an old light box.

The one drawer was an old desk drawer that contained some "stuff" that had probably been in there for years - old pens, old office supplies, old business cards, an envelope of old photos of no significance or quality. The only thing of interest that came out of that old drawer was an old pocket watch of mine. I'd almost forgot about it, so I moved it over in with my other watches.

The box was incidental paperwork that I'd held onto from about six months ago - since six months have passed I simply tossed it. Several of my boxes of stuff are now date stamped - if I am not in them after a certain amount of time passes away, out they will go.

The light box was an old light box I had kept from the days when we used to make technical drawings by hand. It's all done by computer now, so I have no need for it. It survived the last purge more from nostalgia and potential use that anything else - but, I haven't used it for over a year, so out it went. Once I get through my purging, I may take up drawing as a hobby again, in which case, if I need a light box I will just get a new one.

Over the next day or two I am going to break down and through away two pieces of furniture - an old desk and a four drawer bureau that I used in the bedroom. Both of them had been "stuff repositories" and with a few exceptions, I rarely dipped into them to use the stuff they contained, so by the law of usage they are done. Neither of them are of any particular value as furniture - both are just incidental pieces that were picked up somewhere along they way purely for their utility.

So, it was a night of steady progress in my minimalist journey. Slow and steady almost always takes us where we're going. Tonight's plan is simple - some DVR, some reading, and then some quality time with T.R.