Spring Cleaning

Hello and welcome.  If you haven't guessed from the blog's title, I'm something of a compulsive collector.  From online stores to garage sales to my local GameStop to every Barnes and Noble in New York, I've racked up enough games, discs, books and toys to fill my own man cave.  The only problem is that I don't have my own man cave.

You might never see me on an episode of Hoarders.  But what I can't display out in the open sits in a box occupying already cramped living quarters.  Money's tight, family ties are strained and I hardly have time to even shave.  I've mulled over temporary and permanent solutions to the problem. I'd never get back what I paid from reselling, I don't trust storage spaces, donating's out of the question and where would I even be able to start a trash fire?

Earlier this year, I did the one thing I swore to never do again:  Make a resolution.  Four months later, I'm now committed to reducing my collection, little by little, by actually using it.  Reading every book, playing every game, watching every show and film, building every plastic model, listening to that Linkin Park CD that's buried under the junk on my desk.

You can read all about it here, and on Facebook, and on Twitter, as I spend each week scratching the surface of my backlog--while inevitably adding "one last thing" to the pile.