Spring Cleaning
Chinese New Year is just round the corner, less than a month away. Since I have a little time on my hands now, I shall get my act together and spring clean my room. I’m sure there’s one of those 12 steps or 342325 step programmes out there that incorporates the act of spring cleaning an environment as a metaphor of spring clean our own lives. Perhaps, perhaps.
There’s this thing about spring clean – you get confronted with old things that may or may not hold sentimental values. Month-old dust bunnies aside, you wind up discovering old postcards and Christmas cards, some of which from people you no longer speak to. What do we do with this? Chuck or tuck? And then there’s the real tricky things : old textbooks and notes. Admittedly, I still have my notes from high school. And perhaps a few choice textbooks from middle school. And of course ALL my undergrad notes. Is there even a shelf life for these things? Are theirs past due?
So I’m a hoarder. I keep things, always thinking that at some point they’d come in handy, which can be true. I still supply my mother red construction paper for new year decoration from a stash I picked up from my student council days in high school. That was 5 years ago. Each year I give my mum some red paper to make decoration bits. The other day I just gave my sister a compact hole-puncher from 2002. I know because I wrote my name and class on that thing. So I’m a hoarder. At least I’m one who knows exactly where my things are.
So today I will spring clean and clear out clutter, confront the skeletons and dust bunnies in my closet and make space for more hoarding to come.
I am spring cleaning my car today…You 加油！
can spring clean car meh? I spring clean my house almost every week. ha ha
Clean house every week is not called spring cleaning already… spring cleaning can only be done within 1 month of CNY….
i'd throw the cards by people who don't mean much to me now, but keep the ones that look nice or were sent by people i still care about.
i keep selected undergrad notes that i think might be useful should i ever have a teaching job. meanwhile collecting dust only.
i keep most things for a certain period only. if i think i might need it some day then it's for keeps. if this thing has been here a while without me using it, then it's got to go.
even my books also i have to get rid of sometimes. otherwise i'd keep putting in more shelves and more books! sad part is sometimes i haven't even read the books but i'd sell or donate it 'cos got other more exciting titles waiting to be read first haha.