February rant....cabin fever delusions

It’s Refund Season according to a television ad! Get your billions back, I’m told. If only…. It’s never that simple and there is not always a refund. By the time you get all the right information together, you’ve earned whatever Might be coming back, if anything. Still we all scramble to get the numbers together, added up, all the paper that substantiates the numbers and all the inane questions answered to document Any change from the previous year. I’m sure younger people, more mobile people, have “stuff” to claim for change or refunds or whatever they may need. Maybe they can keep better track of it than I do. Maybe they are more like I used to be…organized. When did I become disorganized? Am I more disorganized than I used to be? Or do I simply not remember what I’ve organized? That’s always a worthy new year’s resolution: get organized! Well I’ll never call it a resolution, but it is a goal, if not for my financial well-being then for my mental well-being! It would help immensely if I could simply find what I forgot to organize and remember what I did organize. Is that aging? Slowly I’m clearing files, physical and digital. I’m finding things I didn’t know I had, and certainly not why I saved them in the first place. There are keepsakes, thousands of pictures, and just plain stuff you keep because someone said you should keep everything seven years or is it 10 or just three? Well we are double up on most of those years, so out it goes this year…this spring, if not this winter. And there’s not a lot of time left, if I’m to clear out the clutter or saved “stuff” from winter. And that’s the rule IF we haven't used it, needed it or remembered it in a year or more likely two years-plus, it can go! Sale-able “stuff” will be sold or donated. Other stuff that should be stuff for someone else to take care of will be going their way. The rest is likely just junk, and trashy junk at that. Does that constitute a resolution, a plan or just another annual rant? Time will tell. Wish me luck!