TWO MORE MONTHS ......

This is a kind of a moan.
I was so sure two months ago that I was on my way with the project again - but after just a day or two, I 'forgot' to read the blog one day, and never again remembered the so-recent resolution to read it.

It's interesting that this blog and the whole Archive Project is so much about the maintenance of memories, while currently, I have what my friend Jean called 'an overflowing filing cabinet' so that older people sometimes have difficulty accessing a past event.
Well, part of my difficulty seems to involve making new memories involving what I would call 'resolutions' - and if I'm honest, I need to add, especially if those 'resolutions' involve me doing something that I find difficult or that I may not be fully enthusiastic about the outcomes if I do carry out the resolution.

So today's challenge arose when I began to transfer items from a stack of clutter into some new shelves. Included in the clutter were dozens and dozens of receipts dating back several years - but not back into 'family historical' times.
I am struggling to work myself down from an emotional state about throwing these receipts out.

Just what exactly is the value I am attributing to them?

The original idea of the 'Family Archive' was to provide my descendents with what I longed for but never had from my Great-grandparents - little clues to their everyday life - what they did, even what they ate - anything that might 'bring them back to life' as it were.

I think what I need to do now is to shout aloud to myself one of my favourite slogans:
Too much of a good thing is a bad thing.

So part of that is about going back to the original purpose of this blog:
I planned to photograph items before consigning them to the C-Box from where they would be dumped unexamined when the box got heavy.

SUCCESS!
I've just put all those receipts in the C-BOX. I shut my eyes to do this, so I wouldn't see what else was there.

Of course, now I'm thinking that I could have shredded them and used them in my compost .....

I think I'll have a little bit of ice-cream to celebrate!