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I feel like life has become way more complicated than it should be.
I find the amount of paperwork I need to keep track of in my home life to be overwhelming, which means I need to file things. I'm actually in the process of cancelling bank accounts, utilities and credit cards just to reduce the amount of paper that I have to account for. I really just want to burn it all, but Canada Revenue Agency might not appreciate it, and I'll guarantee you that I'll be audited in the next 3 years because some half-wit monkeys over there keep doing reevaluations and doing them WRONG. Yes, I submit my taxes properly and they reassess me and screw them up, costing me money. I now have to keep track of stuff like "You have to clain $5.84 on your 2007 taxes as income from the interest on the money we shouldn't have penalized you for." I also want to figure out how their math works if when I submitted my taxes the first time, I got a $500 refund, and then they reassessed and I owed them $600, and then they reversed the decision and I only got $90 back. WTF? *sigh*
I also have too much clutter in my life. I am increasingly appalled by the amount of packaging everything comes with - food, clothing, everything. I seem to throw out just as much as I keep in the apartment. I wonder if there is anything I can actively do as a consumer to send a message that much of the packaging is completely unnecessary. I do not need my cookies to be able to withstand a nuclear holocaust in 2022.
I also want to purge a lot of things, but I have a hard time just chucking stuff out when I know it's perfectly good. I really should just abandon hope of finding people to give my clothes to for free and just find a charity to donate them to so they can get a nominal fee from a place like Value Village.
I just want the clutter out of my life, so I can replace it with the chaos that a baby brings.
I find the amount of paperwork I need to keep track of in my home life to be overwhelming, which means I need to file things. I'm actually in the process of cancelling bank accounts, utilities and credit cards just to reduce the amount of paper that I have to account for. I really just want to burn it all, but Canada Revenue Agency might not appreciate it, and I'll guarantee you that I'll be audited in the next 3 years because some half-wit monkeys over there keep doing reevaluations and doing them WRONG. Yes, I submit my taxes properly and they reassess me and screw them up, costing me money. I now have to keep track of stuff like "You have to clain $5.84 on your 2007 taxes as income from the interest on the money we shouldn't have penalized you for." I also want to figure out how their math works if when I submitted my taxes the first time, I got a $500 refund, and then they reassessed and I owed them $600, and then they reversed the decision and I only got $90 back. WTF? *sigh*
I also have too much clutter in my life. I am increasingly appalled by the amount of packaging everything comes with - food, clothing, everything. I seem to throw out just as much as I keep in the apartment. I wonder if there is anything I can actively do as a consumer to send a message that much of the packaging is completely unnecessary. I do not need my cookies to be able to withstand a nuclear holocaust in 2022.
I also want to purge a lot of things, but I have a hard time just chucking stuff out when I know it's perfectly good. I really should just abandon hope of finding people to give my clothes to for free and just find a charity to donate them to so they can get a nominal fee from a place like Value Village.
I just want the clutter out of my life, so I can replace it with the chaos that a baby brings.