Junk/castoffs/bric-a-brac/useless things

I was rummaging through my side drawer but still I could not locate the item, which I was hunting. My wife though she was in the kitchen but her keen 6^th sense was visualizing my activity.

“What are you searching?”

“I am trying to find the gold plated Parker pen which was presented to me some 20 years back!” I shouted back and still going through both upper and lower drawers and finally could locate it stuck in one corner among my collection of dot pens. Yes, this happens quite often with me, suddenly I will feel why not take the pen which I purchased in Australia or the one I purchased at airport. As such, there is no sentimental value attached but still I get attached to these inert objects and waste my time in hunting those.

Now let me explain about my personal side drawers, which is kept bang next to my favorite chair. I was often misplacing things so decided to purchase this small side drawer of two compartments for dumping my important papers or documents like PAN,Voter ID,Adhar, all user manuals,my watches, the earphones which comes with mobile,my spectacles,coins,ready cash, receipts of high value purchase etc. Then over the year, I have not done forensic audit of my drawers. Those papers are also not kept in any chronological order so over the year those two drawers look like waste paper basket. Whenever I look for any of my favorite things then I know where to look for. I go through the same motion of rummaging the whole content ,then discover that many of the papers or user manuals have become out dated but somehow I am not able to destroy those thinking that I may require those someday and thus more trash get added with new purchase.

I have been purchasing CDs of movies since the time CDs came, I am strapped with those CDs and CD players which I don’t operate now, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hotstar etc are enabling me in  watching movies. Then when I look in my cupboard then those CDs stare at me.I have already thrown away hundreds of cassettes. By nature humans are hunter and gatherer so we keep on gathering thinking that someday we may use those but unfortunately the time does not give that chance.

I generally pull the shirt which I see first in the stack and wear that, in the process I keep wearing a limited set of shirts by rotation, then my wife will pull out stack of shirts from almirah which were kept beyond the reach of my vision and ask whether I am going to wear those or she will give those away. There also I noticed that somehow I have retained some shirts that are more than 10 years old. I do not have such problem with my trousers as my waist line takes the decision. So all those 34,36 etc are already given away and made way for 38.

I keep purchasing some 20 odd books a year and those have become a big issue for storing. Those books are occupying major space in my racks and almirahs in my drawing room. I have started giving away the books but very rarely, I find someone who reads books.

During my IOC days I won lots of cups and medals for badminton and football but those are not displayed in my drawing room, one fine morning my wife bundled those off to a kabadiwala thus the proof of my sportsmanship vanished from the eyesight, come to think of it I did not feel bad. Those days are past and no use being sentimental for those lifeless objects.
We have to appreciate that everything has expiry date and after that be it a receipt, manual or any gadget become obsolete but due to our attachment we tend to hold on to those.

Coming back to my those two drawers, I have  to seriously carryout a due diligence audit and tear those papers off and throw away those ear phones and other electronic items which have become obsolete.

I will keep only PAN,Adhar ,Voter ID ,passport and of course my bank books..........all other paper documents have become obsolete or invalid or useless... 
I am already advising my Google home to remember where i am keeping debit card,keys etc.....when asked it gives the location