'Office Stuff' is pretty vague, but I knew what was in there. Plastic grocery bags--loads of them--each packed with 'important papers' from years gone by. It took me all yesterday afternoon to get through the bags marked '2007' through '2010', and one lost one from 2004 that wasn't marked. Anything I didn't think I'd ever need again got shredded - if it had personal info on it - or tossed.
Today I spent the morning going through the rest. Which basically amounted to 2001-2006. I took 3 tall kitchen garbage bags and one big black back worth of shred out to the dumpster, plus two non-shred bags.
And that was one box. I'm such a packrat. Bleh.
Anyway, I did find some interesting things while I was sorting:
- one of Kira's baby pictures. I lost the rest in the great harddrive crash of '06. I scanned it in and posted it for you. Wasn't she a cutie?
- a sympathy card my uncle sent after my dad passed away.
- the W2s from jobs I worked in 2001 and 2002.
- a lost Christmas ornament
- the bag of stuff my mom saved from when I was a kid - which she gave to me when I had a home of my own. Oh, the memories. Old report cards. Homework assignments. School pics. I'll post some of that another time.
What would you find if you cleaned out those boxes you have waiting for you in the back of some closet? Or are you more organized - a place for everything and everything in its place?
I wanted to get some stuff sorted before I go back to teaching school Monday. Alas, with only two days left, I'm thinking it's not going to happen. Working on my novel is more fun.
ReplyDeleteI hear ya, Andrea. I'd rather be writing, too, but my head's not in it. Maybe this weekend.
ReplyDeleteWith all the moves we've made (close to 10 in the last 20 years!), I don't have boxes of paper and stuff. Sometimes it's good to move often - you accumulate less stuff ;) But I get where you're coming from - my mom's been in her house for 45 years and I dread the day we have to help her clean that out (she is the ultimate packrat).
ReplyDeleteGreat pic! Happy organizing :)
I am the type of person that needs to have everything organized. My husband, on the other hand, is a pack rat. He will keep anything and everything, so it's a fine balance in our house.
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