I’m a stacker. I stack my mail, my homework, my bills, my clothes, my pictures, my magazines. I think that I’m being sensible when I delay throwing things out. Maybe I’ll need it someday – the perfect gift from a catalog, or a coupon, or a Christmas card from a neighbor. The funny thing is, I rarely ever get anything out of those piles. Perhaps sweating over the small decisions is just a distraction from the bigger jobs: getting my PhD, losing those 10 pounds, and going for that promotion. Hmm, time to get rid of the piles of the past and live the challenges of today.
–Alison D.