Tidying

We're still working on cleaning out the attic and basement. Sometimes it feels like it's a project that will go on for all eternity, and I'm not even sure what we are doing is "helping" in any way. There is an unbelievable amount of stuff in both places, and getting something done just means making space to sort through the next batch of stuff.

Things I've found fairly recently:

* My own old school workbooks from primary school. (I can't believe I even turned into a decent human being - it seems I was only drawing in these books, there's very little actual work in them.)
* Old photos of various family members. Including at least two different wedding photos of couples I can't recognise at all.
* At least five photo albums - of course with only a few photos in each, if there's anything in them at all.
* My uncle's school materials from higher education/advanced mathematics.
* Two school textbooks issued in 1942 (as in, during occupation and wartime, so these are essentially nazi textbooks. An interesting find, but scary and disgusting at the same time).
* Books, books, books, books, boo.... you get it already.
* A broken chair I can't believe we didn't throw out when it broke....
* Various old computer stuff on CD-ROM - all of which could easily go in the bin nowadays. Why were these things in the basement, still?
* A bunch of football posters from the 1990s. Mixed in with a few pop star posters, and a Barbie poster, and a horse poster. (Interesting how this shows how the teen me was also still a kid in some ways - sports fan wanting to be a "cool" teen on one side, kid liking Barbie and horses and trying to be like "normal girls" in the other).

On to sorting more books.... tomorrow.