different topic, same author

my daughter bought a printer Sunday. what a great invention. i think. because i started going through my email folders, a task i had been dreading, as some of them had gotten quite large, and i knew they had to be sorted out. but what to do with the information i had felt necessary to keep for one reason or another.

i began printing off for paper files the lists of household tips i had acquired over the past two years...the jokes i had laughed out loud at when reading the first time (these i kept if they still made me laugh two years later. the rest...trashed.)

but what i began to realize was that it wasn't the information i received so much as the thought that someone thought i would enjoy the newspaper articles, jokes, cartoons, whatever enough to share them with me.

its that thought...the pleasure or outrage the author of the emails believed i would share. and mostly they were right.

i didn't delete as many as i thought i would.

i wonder if i'm the only one who can't let go of stuff. want to keep it around to look at again and again.

what does that tell me about who i am?

a 'string saver' for sure. a habit that i am trying---really trying---to break.

i've started by going through my collection of gizmo's and eliminating those that no longer brings back a name or a face of the giver. a chancy tactic, since my memory isn't what it used to be. but a start, anyway. so if you come to my house, you'll still see a lot of drek, but not as much as there used to be...sigh.

any tips appreciated. that's not to say i'll take them lol