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Tonight I went through a colossal manila envelope I haven't opened since I moved from New Jersey. Here are some things I threw away:

Records from the move--shipping contracts, utility cancellations and signups.
Records from different frequent flyer programs. I used to fly frequently.
Numerous academic papers on MUDs, innovative user interfaces, computing for people with disabilities, UI lessons from games, and hypertext, an idea that has since conquered the world.
Transparencies from my AT&T presentations on TWin and VEmacs, an attempt at a voice-control-enhanced text editor for programmers with repetitive stress injuries.

Here are a few things I didn't throw away:

Unmailed postcard reproductions of art (Lichtenstein, Magritte, Holzer, Stella (Frank), Johns, Mondrian, Munch... and others) and of World War I and prohibition posters. Most people I knew put posters on their walls. I used postcards.
Mailed postcards from talking_sock: Mexico, Cardiff, an island resort.
Three photographs, the best of which depicts my sisters at Stonehenge in 1993. Stonehenge looks okay but my sisters are great.
An unusually artful Sunday Doonesbury (October 6, 1996).
A photocopy of a humorous flowchart of "all" science-fiction plots, author and date unknown.
A Boston Globe article (March 20, 1995) about Eric Ostrom--possibly this Eric Ostrom--and his new ice detection technology for airplane wings.