unpacking stuff

Over the past few days I've been unpacking all of my college stuff into my room at home. I have a lot of stuff. I also have a lot of clothes that I left at home that I have to deal with now. Also, my parents redid our bathroom so there is stuff from there that is now inhabiting my room that I have to do something with. There is just a lot of stuff. I know my dad would be unhappy to hear this but I took this week to do some unpacking instead of going out to find another job (please don't disown me, dad. I really need to take care of this stuff). It has proven to be quite difficult and is making me a little crazy.

Stuff in general makes me crazy. Especially stuff that we just throw out. At school there were huge dumpsters by my apartment where we could throw away all of our trash. So much trash was in there. It was disgusting. That trash just ends up in land fills or in the ocean or is burned. Oh gosh, our graduation speaker was this woman who was really big on the environment and was telling us these scary facts about trash in the environment. That's all I could think about afterwards. I think she said that there was a pile a trash in the Pacific that was twice the size of the United States. Ah, that is really scary. I remember feeling the same way after I saw the movie Wall-e. Not good.

But if I don't throw away this stuff then I essentially become a hoarder. I don't think I can live as a hoarder right now. Maybe when I'm older and senile but now while I'm still a young pup. Something that is good that we're doing to get rid of some of the unwanted stuff is donating clothes to places like Purple Heart and AMVETS. I feel much better donating clothes than just throwing them away. At school we also had these giant give away bins that incoming freshmen could look through and use for their first dorm rooms. I think that was very smart to do. The only problem I can see with that is where all this stuff will be stored until then. I hope my school has that already taken care of.

If I become a hoarder please someone slap me out of it. I'm going to try and get my mind off of this.

Until tomorrow,

Caroline