Kevin's Weblog

We started Discardia a little early this season. I was out in the garage yesterday and unearthed the boxes containing all my notes from 7 years of college and grad school. Then I proceeded to throw all of it into the recycling bin. I started a little slow, since the first stuff I found was 3-ring binders that I had to open and remove paper from a chunk at time. But, I finished by taking the big box of spiral notebooks that has been sealed since I moved to California and simply upending it into the bin.

After all that, I went through the box of all my camping gear and separated out all the hard-core stuff that I don’t figure I’m going to need, even if we do start camping as a family at some point. That went up on Freecycle, to someone who claimed they had a couple young scouts who needed gear.

I’m also going to try to make another aggressive pass through my clothing. Recently I actually tried on all my dress shirts and found that only two of them still fit me. A similar situation holds for slacks, although some of those have potential for alteration. Either way, I want to set a goal of having no more clothing that doesn’t actually fit me any more at the end of this year.