The Paper Solution
🧾 Confetti & Clarity: A Summer of Paper Decluttering Weeds, Wildfires, and the Weight of 30 Years of Paper Greetings, friends—after a long summer spent battling paper and weeds, This season can be summed up with two dominant forces: 🌿 Weeds—which exploded across our property thanks to some much-needed rain (a blessing, since it helped keep wildfire threats at bay), and 📦 Boxes of Paper—which I slowly, methodically, and emotionally worked my way through. 🗃️ One Box at a Time (Mostly) Most days, I made it a goal to pull one box a day from our attic. Some days I succeeded. Other days, life had other plans. But even at a slow and steady pace, the progress was real—and today, September 4, 2021, I’m looking at only a few boxes left. That’s a win I’ll proudly take. 📜 A Life on Paper What I found in those boxes was… staggering. Pay stubs from my very first jobs School papers from decades ago A full record of life’s big and small moment...