Old notes

[cdave]

Bit late for a What I Did At The Weekend (Went to Caption (Oxford small press comics convention) on Saturday, and down south to visit parental units on the Sunday) post, but one of the things I did was clear some of my junk out of a parental loft.

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I found that I had 3 cardboard boxes of "school stuff" and 2 plastic crates of "University stuff". I didn't have much time to go through it, but managed to sling a few bits (such as all my sixth form era invites to University open days). While I do like the odd doodle in the margin, and in joke scrawled on the cover of a notebook, I'm really not sure I need to keep quite this volume of stuff.

Given that I haven't looked at it in years, and am unlikely to do so in the near future, I probably should just sling most of it. But it's so final. This stuff, as useless as it is, is literally irreplaceable. I managed to avoid picking up a "bargin" in IKEA the other day on the basis that I'd rather pay full price when I need it, than hang onto something that just takes up space. But this stuff is my own hand.

Comments

[tregenza.livejournal.com]

Throw it all away.

Now.

Don't hesitate in anyway.

If you don't, you will be moving it around from house to house for the rest of your life.

You will not go back to read them, or even to sort them out. You have so many more interesting things to do and will continue to do so for the rest of your life.

Even if you went back to Uni to study exactly the same courses your old notes would be out-dated, useless and unread.

You will notice that none of the people advocating keeping the stuff say that they actually use their notes. They keep them because one day "they may be useful". That day never arrives.

Save space, money and time by just throwing them all away.

[cdave]

Thanks. This is the sort of thing I need to hear.

I would like to keep about 5% of it as a guess. The stuff with doodles on, and old jokes. I could probably sort it out in half a day, which I could do while visiting my Dad, and he watches a Grand Prix. Three brids with one stone.