i spent the weekend shredding, recycling, donating, garbaging and gifting a bunch of my stuff, and was reminded of George Carlin’s A Place For My Stuff (see also Stuff; according to George Carlin).

here are the three strangest things i have held onto over the years and finally discarded this weekend:

  1. detachable beaded fringe from a $50 pair of jean shorts i had purchased and had tried to return, but apparently stores don’t take back worn merchandise (what can i say, i was in high school)…
  2. automatic shift thingy i had broken off of a pick-up truck (accidentally!) while driving around the random coal mine i worked at…
  3. Canon StarWriter 80 (not really strange, but an entirely useless old-school word processor) — there are people trying to sell theirs on ebay; mine is on its way to an ecostation…

for a truly cathartic experience, “when in doubt, throw it out!”
and as one of the “web guys” once said… YAGNI!
you ain’t gonna need it!