Day 302 - Clutter

 CLUTTER

Prompt - Clutter : Is there a cluttered spot in your home?  Go through some of that clutter today and write about what you find or the process of organising

I have piles.  Piles of paper mostly, but sometimes the piles will contain bits of IT kit, or envelopes, or plastic, or surprising rubbish.  Most of it is my room, my study, so that it is at least contained.  But there's always a pile of papers on the kitchen table, and there will be some detritus on my bedside cabinet (and, to be fair, on top of the cabinet on the other side of the bed, albeit, to less messy ends).  And my desk... is a mess.  At present it, and floor of this room, are both considerably better than they were a few weeks ago, before I installed the new desktop PC, a process that forced me into having a tidy up.  At last.

So I looked at the remaining piles of paper on the floor, for the purposes of this exercise.  That means ignoring, for now, the other piles in this place.  Which includes an ancient hard drive of no further possible use; a couple of cardboard boxes awaiting some of the many CDs and books I have found the resolve to throw out (and donate to a wonderful second-hand shop on Leith Walk); tow old briefcases that contain I know not what, although I think one is music related; a couple of boxes that I don't really need any more; and, worst of all, a big spread of jars and paints and files (the rasping kind) and books and tape and the box and the 2CV model kit that was in the box, partially completed for months and now very dusty...

Which is why it was easier to opt for the paper on the floor.  Only two small piles.  The first contained some banking documents.  A couple relating to an old account which I think is now closed (but I should make sure...), the rest to signing up to manage some financial investments online.  I did try before, but the website was Byzantine, and ended up defeating me.  I should try again.

The second pile was much easier to deal with.  Most of it was papers relating to a class I helped run for new volunteers at Advocard.  By the time I do it again (if I do it again) it will be out of date.  that will go into the recycling when I go downstairs in a few minutes.  The only other item in the pile was an old A4 notebook, partly filled with notes for minutes when I was on the AdvoCard board - a long time ago.  It did see some use recently, when I was working through the Kickstarter projects I've backed for a piece I was writing, and also some basic notes for a poem I wrote several weeks ago.  I have found a novel place for the book now, fitting perfectly into the gap between the box on the wall to my right, which I use as a device charging station, and the bookcase beside it.  So the room is a little tidier as a result of having to do this exercise.  Now I should do something similar to the rubbish on the desk....