Paper clutter clearing time

Well since my laptop is awaiting the replacement parts which need to be specially ordered, I end up using my older laptop whose internet speed capacity seems almost like “crawling”.  This makes online research for toy news, and even blogging and posting photos a torture for me.  As a result, I cut down my online hours and decided to do one of my other pastimes - clearing piles of accumulated paper clutter from my room!

In less than half an hour, I cleared out one plastic bag full of useless paper materials for the recycling bin.  For the paper clutter that I retained, most are actually the backcards and flattened boxes of my latest toy purchases, but I hadn’t stored them away with the rest of my toy packaging collection yet.  It’s a bit troublesome to access those storage areas in the remote and hard to reach parts of my cupboards, so I procrastinated for the past several weeks.  In the meantime, new toys keep streaming in, together with their packaging, argh!

I usually dislike stacking heaps of things on the floor as it is very unsightly, but my cupboards are full and my toy cullings are not speedy enough to match my toys inputs.  Such is the peril of being in a hobby to do with compulsive and addictive hoarding habits, like toys collecting.  At the end of the day, I sometimes wonder if there are truly other effective ways of appreciating toys without owning them and storing them at home?  I may want to look into my nephew’s suggestion of ‘collecting toys’ by ticking their sightings at the stores on a check list and be done with it!