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Well, not so much decluttering as putting all the clutter in the same place in the hope that it will reach critical mass and implode. Things Which Might Come In Handy One Day seem to be going to the same place for now, and I'll see how useful they seem once I'm cleared. Twenty empty bankers boxes? 24?

Comics next, I want to keep runs of Sandman and the like but I have a few boxes of Comics, Misc which might well contain nothing I feel the need to continue to live with.

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Thanks for "...nothing I feel the need to continue to live with". The application of it will probably be useful, even if I don't get around to getting the printer activated and printing out a copy to post above my desk.

24 (or even 20) bankers boxes of acknowledged Stuph sounds impressive, even to me.

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I have a theory that you should box things up, label the box, and keep an index. Then put them in the loft (or basement) in the knowledge that if you need something in them you can easily find it.

6 months or a year later - be ruthless. What did you really miss?

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Piker! Try "thirty years later...", rather than a mere six months or a year. Mind you, it's kinda interesting to look at & handle things after that long an interval, but... yeah, not often worth the investment.

(Okay, I suppose some much-ballyhooed Artist could frame a collection of, say, #3 Phillips screwdrivers, acquired over the decades when the older ones couldn't be located, and some of us would -- after wincing -- be mildly amused, but....)

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Fanzines will be difficult. I have 7' of them, which I do hope one day to read and loc, but this seems increasingly unlikely. They were gifts, and I want to treasure them, but there are just so many. Perhaps it's time to wipe the slate of my perceived loccing obligations, and start fresh.

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What does loc mean?

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"Letter of Comment" - part of "The Usual" mechanism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction_fanzine#Origins_and_history
I used to do a lot of reading and writing fanzines, and loccing, back in the day. Leafing through the old fanzines (7 boxes! Stuck on a high shelf rather than decluttered, for now) it all comes back to me and the urge stirs to pub my ish.

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Gosh, thank you :)

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I'm doing the same thing - getting rid of comics and fanzines. Well, they're in a pile to go, but I'm having a hard time. Don't know what to do with the 'zines, but I haven't looked at them in years, and wondering how to get rid of the comics. I'll keep the Baker Street, Tank Girl, Modesty Blaise, and Sandman series, but the rest can go.

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I've got a few boxes of comics I'm trying (not as hard as I should) to sell. I also have, somewhere, a small to middling stack of Digital Aubergines, which I insist on keeping for posterity.

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