...to what could be written here. And if just considering currently relevant happenings, there's like three things.

I'm going to move tomorrow, back to my parents' place. Presumably until I get a job, and then, an apartment relatively close to that job.

The last week I've mostly been packing stuff up, and also throwing things away. I must say it's by far more fun to throw things away.

Which brings me to an interesting point. It's very liberating not having much stuff. You can just go places without having to care about it. Sometimes when I think about it, I figure I can throw almost everything away.

Then if I go through old stuff, I turns out it's much more difficult than it was imagined. The difference is, when the stuff is before you, it makes you remember things, things that you didn't remember when you just thought of it as a bunch of old stuff in a box. And when you do remember whatever it is, it's no longer about throwing the thing away, it's about throwing the memory away.

Funny thing is that you never use the stuff in those boxes, and you never go look at it either. So you don't even really use them to recall things, except when trying to throw them away. And you never miss those memories when they're not recalled, because, of course, you don't really remember them actively then.

This stuff could be anything. Drawings in notebooks. Really old toys. Gifts given by someone at some point.

So what do you do? Well, for me, each time I go through old stuff, I manage to throw away some of it. Some of it doesn't really bring up any memories. But what to do about the rest, eh? Well, you can just keep storing them in boxes, taking space, and not really doing anything else. Or, you could throw them away, but after -- and this is the master plan -- you have photographed them. It's such a simple idea, it's weird I never thought about it until this week.

This does not really mean I managed to throw everything away, pretty far from it. But maybe I threw a bit more stuff away than I would otherwise have done. And I have greater plans for lots of boxes with stuff that's in storage at my parents'.

You just better hope you create reliable backups of the photos.

So, is this the only problem when trying to throw things away? No. There's some more. I can think of at least two other without making an effort. Stay tuned for a possible rant on them some other day.

In other news, I need to empty out the water collector thingy at my freezer, which is currently being shut down and de-icyfied.. which is probably not a word.

And it's also Pi Day!