Put me in a branch of Ikea, and I'll come out the doors with various ingenious means of storage, such as these white beauties. They come as flatpacks but it doesn't take much effort to put them together to make easy and smart boxes for DVDs, CDs or, in this case, magazines.
It's amazing what you manage to collect over the years, and one glance inside our cupboards reveals that there are endless magazines, newspapers, books, folders and documents which all need sorting through and storing properly.
A lot of the stuff I throw away or recycle - things I forgot I had in the first place - while the stuff I want to keep gets boxed up and packed away. The litmus test I have for sorting through stuff is that if I haven't looked at it or thought about it for the last year, it goes. Why do I have it if I don't use it?
Some things you want to keep for sentimental value, but really, not very much. Whole swathes of junk from my school, college and uni days can go. That's not me any more, that me has gone. What matters today is the me from now, and I can't see myself wanting to look at old shorthand exam papers or second drafts of my degree dissertation ever again.
So, while the good stuff goes in the white boxes, much of the past gets thrown out. What is important is today, and tomorrow - yesterday is so old hat.
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