At the start of this month I wrote about getting rid of some excess stuff I had around here. I was turned on to this by another blogger and a Time Magazine article. You can read the original post here.

I tossed my bed but only because it was super old and not really worth selling. I sold an extra T.V. that’s been hanging on the wall for 8 months with nothing plugged in (what a waste). I offered up my books to people at work and sold the rest to a local place Half Priced Books.

I’m not sure if I’m going to part with my DVDs yet. I have around 500 DVDs at the moment and I do watch many of them often enough where I would want them around. I’ll probably remove the ones that I don’t care for and maybe remove the cases to keep them in a folder with sleeves. It’ll take up less room that way. I probably could rip them but that’s a lot of data to store.

I dumped some extra clothing into a goodwill dumpster thing. I had some old suits, ties, sweaters, etc that I haven’t worn in a long time. One suit was worn once to a prom and never used again.

I’m also looking to get my real photos into digital ones to get rid of the shoe boxes. I can always print out pictures if I want in the future. I plan to do the same with my documents by converting them all to PDF format. It’ll also provide me an easy way to search through them.

Living like a homeless person is not my goal. I just don’t want to be someone who’s too wrapped up in my possessions and creating an invisible friend, starting a gang, and shooting myself in the face seems a little too harsh for my taste (Fight Club reference).