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Eight Cubic Feet of Things
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29-JAN-2005 Cheryl Hawkins

1-29-05
Eight Cubic Feet of Things

For the last two weekends I've been cleaning my home office. I don't meet clients
here so it's out of control. I had/have 10 years worth of design magazines, stock
photos catalogs and other magazines I've been holding on to just in case I needed
them, notes from college, client files backed up on CD, diskettes, software old and
new, broken or old modems, other computer peripherals, envelopes of photos,
pens, books and more.

I've finally decided to recycle a lot of this mess. If I haven't looked at the magazines
in the last year, good chance that I won't ever.

This stack is one of the last spots I have left to tackle. I worked on the bottom part
today, the area to the left of the cubes is empty for the first time in years. I can now
look in the drawers on the side of my desk without having to move stuff first.

Tomorrow I work on the last pile. Then I will have to go around the room one more time
to see what else I can get rid of.

Whew!


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Barbara C. 08-Feb-2005 14:28
WHEW!!! I think I know who you take after.. MOM
John S. Nasche31-Jan-2005 17:44
Uhhh, Cheryl, ... when you'fe finished would you like to help me clean mine? Please? Pretty please?
northstar3731-Jan-2005 10:08
A work of art in itself, heheh
gary becker31-Jan-2005 05:14
That is hilarious and so familiar it's not funny. ; )
Steve Pepple31-Jan-2005 01:07
Ohmigosh, thank you, thank you, thank you. I don't have the messiest desk in the world! I am not the biggest packrat in the world. (Just a close second on both accounts, that's all). LOL!
Guest 30-Jan-2005 18:47
Junk-tastic!
Guest 30-Jan-2005 18:31
Wow!!, Good luck, I´ll be waiting to see the "after photo" :-)
Gary Blanchette30-Jan-2005 13:28
Hahaha! That looks like my desk, but without the shelves. A couple of stacks may be getting just a little too high. Great shot!
Neal Nye30-Jan-2005 13:05
You are to be congratulated. Not only for cleaning this up but for having the foresight to photograph it first. Excellent.
Jim B30-Jan-2005 12:34
My desk at home would look just like that if The Wife did not shout at me to clean it up!
Stu30-Jan-2005 11:58
Looks not unlike my office!
Karen Stuebing30-Jan-2005 11:53
A fellow packrat. :) People who aren't don't understand that we can find anything we need even though it looks like total chaos. I guess it's good to clean it up once in a while. ;)
Guest 30-Jan-2005 08:56
Thats messy!
laine8230-Jan-2005 07:53
You wont work for days after this is complete. I can just see you sitting there staring at the empty spaces, hehehe !!
Si Kirk30-Jan-2005 07:40
whoa! that is a man mountain of work all of a sudden i feel tidy.
Guest 30-Jan-2005 06:37
Absolutely alive !