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The Lost Cause
Feb. 8th, 2012 04:32 amMy room is full of junk. This is hardly news, but it's something that's reinforced painfully every time I embark on one of these cleaning missions. This time, I'm attempting to reacquire the use of a few drawers that are A) Full of useless things and B) Inaccessible. It seems to me that if I can dispose of the contents and then relocate the stuff blocking them (which is stuff I actually wish to keep), things will improve. I could even (and this is crazy) put the things CURRENTLY BLOCKING THE DRAWERS INSIDE THE DRAWERS. The madness.
But, back to the hopeless part - I just spent about 90 minutes simply moving things out of the room in question. Nothing organized, sorted, cleaned, or anything - just relocated. This has created only the tiniest dent in the heaps of stuff. It will probably take at least twice as long just to figure out what to keep and where to put it. And all that putting it back will accomplish is to block access to other stuff that should get similar treatment.
What I really need is another room twice the size in which to put EVERYTHING, sort it all out, and then put back only that which I wish to keep, packed efficiently. And then, of course, the buckets of time needed to perform this massive undertaking. What I actually have is a space about a tenth that size, and only a couple of days in which to use it. Sigh.
On the plus side, I stumbled across a long-forgotten tiny box of Magic cards that said it contained Unlimited edition commons and lands. In theory, this would be worthless, except Sinkhole was originally printed as a common, and there were two of them in there. A minty fresh Sinkhole runs about $28 these days, so finding them was a nice little surprise.
But, back to the hopeless part - I just spent about 90 minutes simply moving things out of the room in question. Nothing organized, sorted, cleaned, or anything - just relocated. This has created only the tiniest dent in the heaps of stuff. It will probably take at least twice as long just to figure out what to keep and where to put it. And all that putting it back will accomplish is to block access to other stuff that should get similar treatment.
What I really need is another room twice the size in which to put EVERYTHING, sort it all out, and then put back only that which I wish to keep, packed efficiently. And then, of course, the buckets of time needed to perform this massive undertaking. What I actually have is a space about a tenth that size, and only a couple of days in which to use it. Sigh.
On the plus side, I stumbled across a long-forgotten tiny box of Magic cards that said it contained Unlimited edition commons and lands. In theory, this would be worthless, except Sinkhole was originally printed as a common, and there were two of them in there. A minty fresh Sinkhole runs about $28 these days, so finding them was a nice little surprise.
