I didn’t see a thread already started for the March version of this, so I thought I might start one.
After not doing anything through most of February, I am now tackling something that I’ve been putting off for years: eliminating the boxes of ‘miscellany’ that clutter my apartment. These boxes have moved with me. In a very real sense, they are part of the psychological clutter of what I am starting to think of as my ‘old life’, which I now want to move beyond.
These boxes contain piles of paper and receipts and bills and magazines and bank statements and all kinds of stuff: the paper trail of my daily life. I am going through each box and either placing each thing in a folder in my underused filing cabinet, or tossing it in the recycle bin. A small number of things are going in a ‘secondary sort’ pile, which I will tackle in a second pass. but not many.
So far, I have found: [ul][li]paperwork I need to copy and send to my sister (finding this was the original motivation for the task);[]an essay on Parallel Resonant Fields that I was looking for–I printed it out in 1996 and the website is now gone;[]missing tax records from 2005 and 2004 (I’d done the taxes, this was just the paperwork);[]info I need for this year’s taxes;[]pictures I need to scan for someone;[]a half-finished design I need to complete for a friend;[]receipts, bank statements, old maps, letters, greeting cards, all kinds of crap.[/ul]The recycle bin is getting quite a workout. :)[/li]
There are four more boxes, including the ones under the bed. This is going to take some time.