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你是不是有留着没用的东西而不扔掉的习惯呢？你是不是觉得，有一天这些东西还会派上用场呢？哈哈，在今天的西部落，我们来看看，如果你的周围都是放杂物的盒子，你的生活会变的怎么样。


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My life is cluttered with things I've saved. Most of them aren't worth saving but I can't bring myself to throw them away.
If I have an empty box, I fill it with stuff I decide to keep. One box is filled with note pads that I've never written a note on.
Right under my feet I have one of those metal file dividers. I bought this about eight years ago. I filled it with papers that I never look at. It just sits there, full.
I made one box to keep papers in and to separate oh, say legal matters from letters from old friends. It has seven places for different kinds of papers but I forget what the difference is.
I keep a couple of cardboard boxes right by my desk. Every once in a while, maybe twice a day, I come across something I want to keep and I put it in one of these boxes. When the box fills up, I start filling another box.
These floppy discs seemed like a great idea when they were invented. I like to be in on technological progress. So, I have hundreds of discs now filled with stuff I've written. I never look at any of them. They are here though. Ready when I am.
If I do have something on paper that I want to keep, an appointment or something, Susie pins it up on the bulletin board and I never look at that either
These are the really important papers up here. Different categories of important. Personal, legal, family, business, ideas. I no longer know what these papers are. All I can tell you for sure is they're important.
Some of my old calendars. This is 1994, here’s 2003. Apparently I went to Paris on Monday, June 2nd that year. I forget how long I stayed in Paris but it must have been a quick trip because I gave a speech in Buffalo on June 9th.
It's hard to know how much of your life you ought to try and save so you can enjoy remembering it. Sometimes all you can remember are the things you'd rather forget.
重点词汇
Clutter: 凌乱地塞满，乱堆放
提示:在用这个单词的时候，搭配是clutter sth (up) with sth/sb.
Don't clutter the page with too many diagrams.
别用太多的图表来堆砌版面。

Come across: (偶然)碰到，遇到
We came across an old man lying in the road.
我们碰见一位老人躺在路上。
I came across an old friend yesterday.
我昨天碰见一位老朋友。

Stuff: 物品,东西
I've got quite a lot of stuff to read.
我有许多东西要读。

Bulletin board: 布告栏