New Years Purge .1 of 2

There are two New Years Purges every year for me. The first comes the week before the new year when I destroy my apartment in the hopes that I will rebuild it from the ashes a new Phoenix of cleanliness and organization. The second purge occurs at 11 AM on January 1st, about thirty minutes after i wake up with an earth-cracking hangover and I'm sure you can guess the nature of this second purge.

Right now, I'm in the midst of an epic New Years apartment purge and reorganize. I've added shelving space which was much needed because I am constantly adding new crap to my apartment that I don't know where to store.

Last year, I added the first shelving unit and a couple of large and medium boxes to my "miscellaneous corner," and this year I need better boxes, and more storage space.

Here's the thing- I'm not a pack rat, but I definitely save shit. But I save stuff like an old CD burner, an old Sega Genesis, and an old Super Nintendo. I also have saved all my old VHS tapes, while there aren't that many, I would rather keep them because I don't have any of the movies on DVD(the big exception being that my VCR just broke recently, so now they are really just taking up space.)

The librarian part of me doesn't want to get rid of certain things that would benefit my obsessive-compulsive archival disorder. I love to have access to all sorts of things at all times. That's part of the reason I'm obsessed with buying and reading books. I want to be helpful to all my friends in any way possible. I like collecting knowledge and this compulsion splashes over significantly to pop culture uses- hence the old game consoles(i also have an old version of Oregon Trail), the Vectrex I just bought, and the various bundles of magazines I have kept in chronological order.

However, today is the day that this all gets put in order. Period. I'm not putting a definite time-limit on it, but today is really the only day I am going to have available for this monsterous job. The little things I can do while puttering around the house in the evening are things I would do no matter what, so I can spread little things out this week.

This is all in preparation for New Years Purge #2, and making sure I have a clean house for people to crash at after the Prospector on Sunday. That's very important.

Alright- back to work.