GROIC Day 4

There is nothing in the “rules” for this Get-Rid-Of-It Challenge that says you have to throw out x of the same kinds of things on day x, but somehow my OCD mind seems to want to work this way. Unfortunately every set of things I thought of today had the wrong cardinality. The positive side of this is that I think I have sets for the next few days, but I can see the time coming when the OCD is going to have to be overridden and some of the counting is going to get a bit peculiar.

Today I eventually settled on four books — well, two books, a set of brochures and an atlas — associated with some of my gallivanting travels.

They are

• A pile of brochures for various regions of Victoria and NSW that I accumulated while living in Melbourne and planning a few trips;
• A Lonely Planet guide to Canada, which was useful when I lived in Newfoundland and travelled around the Atlantic provinces in 1998;
• A guide to Budapest, from my visit to Hungary in 1991 (part of my first ever overseas trip);
• And the one I’m most reluctant to throw out, especially as I love maps and this still hints loudly of places I’d love to visit: an Atlas of Great Britain, detached from its cover, which I actually carried with me when I was youth hostelling around the UK on that 1991 trip.