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I'm a professional woman in my 30s who's spent the last 13 years working in TV news. I love shoes, shopping and blogging. I also have an advice column. In the name of full disclosure I have to admit I don’t have a background in psychology, unless you count that one college course freshman year ...
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Wednesday, May, 28, 2008

This week I decided to clean out my loft (finally my friends will say!) I've been talking about doing it for months.  It's the place where I throw everything when I need to get it out of the way.  I took all the Christmas stuff up there months ago and couldn't put it away in the closet because of all of my mess.. yikes!  Now to defend myself just a little, I don't have any storage space at my condo and only one bedroom.  Okay, enough with excuses and enough of being a pack rat!  I spent several hours up there and found tons of crap I definitely don't need.

So here are 10 things (in no particular order) I found in my loft I shouldn't still have:

1.  A manual (and extra bag) for a vacuum I haven't owned in two years
2.  Maps for cities in Spain and Portugal from a trip I took in high school and maps of Memphis, where I only lived for 7 months
3.  A cell phone from before texting even existed
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4.  Dozens of greeting cards I received for birthday, Christmas, going away, etc
5.  Power cords and cables for electronics I'm pretty sure I don't own anymore 
6.  Boxes of business cards from old jobs
7.  Bag for an air mattress I had to throw away because it leaked
8.  South Beach Diet book
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9.  Hundreds if not thousands of bills, receipts, pay stubs etc. from more than two years ago
10. Old wedding invitations

So I trashed, shredded & shredded (actually overheated my shredder)
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or put most of it in my donation pile, except for the power cords and cables.  I just couldn't because you never know when I might need one again.  I'm pretty sure my mom will say that's something I get from my dad.

Stylishly yours,
Miss Attitude

www.missattitude.us

 

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psansour
psansour
That is WAY too familiar. I
Posted Wed, 05/28/2008 - 12:18
That is WAY too familiar. I once found a fairy in my attic. She had been trapped there for 6 years.
ReneeCK
ReneeCK
Good for you!
Posted Wed, 05/28/2008 - 18:57
We have 4 crawl spaces that are designated for storage, and a garage. All of them are over packed with, um, mostly crap we don't need.

My friend who is also a surgeon and removed my gall bladder LOVES the South Beach Diet. That and Jenny Craig. He says they send him the most amount of patients.
Tara
Tara
Great post!
Posted Fri, 05/30/2008 - 09:05
Good for you girl! Sometimes, it's hard for me to get rid of stuff also, even though I know I'll never use it again. There's just this nagging voice in my head telling me as soon as I get rid of it, SOMETHING will cause me to need it again. But it's good for the soul to clean house every so often. That's quite an impressive list too! And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.