Some people keep their homes neat and clutter free. We are not among the members of that group. We have lived in this house for 36 years. We have never really de-junked, but now is the time. As I have mentioned before, it makes me dizzy to see haw much stuff has accumulated. Agent Listorama knows about de-junking.

Many years ago when personal computers started to proliferate, the computer industry was selling the public on the idea of a "paperless" society. Your trusty computer would store all the information and data that you need. Who needs paper? That prognostication turned out to be completely bogus. What the computerization of the world actually did was accelerate the generation of paper documents of all types. In days of yore you would look up stuff in books and make notes. Now you look up stuff on the internet and print it out. We have burned out quite a few printers over the years. My original printer was an Epson MX1100 wide carriage dot matrix machine. It had a ribbon. It could feed the pin drive folded paper. It could print 80 characters per second. That would be about a page per minute. Our latest laser printer, an HP Laserjet Pro 400 can print 35 pages per minute.

So we are finding and tossing an unbelievable amount of paper. We take it to the recycle bins at our church. Here Ginny is posing with two trash cans and a box of paper to be recycled. We have made quite a few trips, and the paper is still being unearthed at the house.