My grandad was a bit of a horder. I have hording genes. Every so often I have fits of ruthlessness and throw things out, because I also have some conflicting genes that hate clutter. I am a tortured soul. It's hard to say at this point which side of my genetics will get the upper hand. Maybe I'll snap when loading the car and decide to chuck them out. It's feeling like a stessful process.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Moving
I've shed about 50% of my thesis work notes and papers today. I've kept the 'important' stuff and thrown out all the duplicates and slightly wrong plots that I was keeping because they seemed useful at the time. I also have all my undergrad notes sitting here. I'm not really sure what to do with them. It would be most sensible to throw them away, since I haven't used them since graduating, but every time I take them off the shelf I think about how much effort I put into the work and can't bring myself to do it. I should also mention that I realised today that I have 5Gb of pointless files on my computer, which I am keeping 'just in case'.
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Don't throw them out! Just whack the whole lot onto CDs and label them with something meaningful. Trust me, you will want some of it some day!
I still have geography projects from when I was 11. Along with lab books from uni and probably macaroni necklaces from play school. What else are lofts for? I have serious problems with throwing anything away but dream of an unclutttered minimalist life. I understand you pain.
The thing with fundamental physics and maths is that it doesn't really go out of date. New stuff just gets added. Sadly we don't have a loft, so I can't just put them somewhere they will be forgotton.
What I did was to leave all the papers that I can get off the web (so for JGR etc it was anything after 1996) and take as much as I could electronically. But you're right, sorting through all the crap that you acquire over the years is definitely a pain in the bum
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