Almost exactly a year ago, (January 15th 2008) I wrote this in my livejournal.

“I am growing less and less attached to my material possessions and grossed out by owning to a point, which is now, that I am considering putting everything I own up on my site for sale and only own it until it’s sold. It means I’d have to put a price to all of it and let it go if that price is reached. And by everything I mean everything I own.. except things I really need for working and personal hygiene things & underwear.”

Since I still feel almost exactly the same way about my possessions although there are things I want to keep I have decided to do something similar, like this:

I will sell evething I don’t find neccessary to keep, either on Tradera, on some kind of yard sale/flea market or if it’s possible and fits with the other things I sell there, on my site. If there are things my friends want badly I will probably give them away but I can’t say I’ll give everything away because I am always short on cash, and rent is always nice to be able to pay.

The things I can’t part with for one reason or the other, I will document them one by one on my Flickr, with pictures and a description about why I want to keep them, where I got them and when and what they mean or don’t mean to me. This will be the Everything I Own-project. Kind of inspired by Dödbso. I will only post some kind of collages of what I’ve photographed and uploaded  on Flickr lately here so that I don’t spam you with possessions.

I already got rid of all my CDs and DVDs (except my Buffy boxes, haha). My books have been bothering me because I can’t seem to let go of them at all, I’m way too much of an information gatherer and need to have them around and I can’t concentrate on reading e-books or the like. Therefore I have decided to read/re-read all of them.  I started January 1st and my goal was one book/week but I’ve been better than that. I will list them too here. I will probably buy new books (in thrift stores) too because I get tempted. After I’ve been Reading All My Books I might give them away (/sell, but people seem to have a thing against paperbacks?? THE CONTENT IS THE SAME!!!), I haven’t decided that yet.

This is the plan, it might change as I continue but if it does, hopefully for the better. (Yes, I’m aware of that it will probably take ages. Might never end, in fact.)