9 Things I’m Trashing Instead of Dealing with This Week

I love purging, but if I have to keep doing it, I think I’m missing some big point of the Universe. I have all of these unfinished projects nagging me. This week, I just don’t want to deal, so I’m not.

1. Our Christmas cards, which cost me $40. Jan. 25 is too late to send them out, and I don’t see myself looking up all those addresses and writing them by hand on envelopes any time soon. So, I trashed them.
2. All of the returns on my work magazine. I don’t have an intern to do the database work, and quite frankly, I don’t have the time or energy to go through six spreadsheets to find the addresses that need to be changed. The mailhouse didn’t include the secret code that ID’s the source database, so screw it. Into the recycle bin you go.
3. Any blog in my reader with more than 5 unread posts. Goodbye Shutter Sisters. I love you, but you’re too prolific and stress me out.
4. Every receipt except for medical ones. For some reason, I have two huge stacks of receipts I have been collecting, I think, to watch my finances. Buh-bye.
5. Mint.com. I’m turning off all emails because I haven’t had time to set up a realistic budget, and I keep getting these stressful emails telling me I’ve overshot my budget for everything.
6. Most of the stuff on my home desk. Unless it has to do with my taxes, it’s going in the trash.
7. Most of the stuff on my work desk. There are piles, and then there are piles. #2 will help a lot.
8. Any work email in my inbox prior to last week. If I haven’t had time to deal with it by now, it ain’t going to happen. My IT administrator will be so pleased, because my email box is about 2Gb big (I get a lot of graphic design attachments).
9. All Facebook friend requests, Farmville requests, etc. No, I do not want to have a snowball fight. Please, I’m already freezing as it is.