jackl’s blogAnything to get away from daytime TV
Although I keep my computers pretty tidy file/directory–wise I don’t have the same consistency with physical filing. However, the effort of attempting to squeeze another Barclaycard statement into the filing cabinet finally became too much.
And as I have been ‘disabled’ from normal life (i.e. going to work, work, coming back from work, eating / sleeping) due to the broken foot there was no time like the present!
We have a large, four–drawer filing cabinet (second–hand bargain) and it does hold quite a lot of useful info, but like the Internet it’s how it’s indexed and what needs to be weeded out that matters.
So I’ve spent the last couple of days ‘weeding’. And although it is time–consuming it is better than watching daytime TV and you do get a vague sense of achievement after shredding the 3rd bag of a small paper–mountain. Our paper recycling box is full to the brim and the cabinet is starting to look like it could be used easily again.
The trick is how to keep it that way without having a weeks worth of work in 2010? Most of my organisational plans don’t tend to work out and I soon go back to the ‘file that on the pile on top of the CD cases’ routine. I know it just takes the will power to deal with the bit of paper at the time it comes into the house but there is always something more interesting to do. Mostly I do the right thing but when the space where I put that bit of paper becomes full it doesn’t occur to me to get rid of the old, not needed stuff (that’s even more boring). And so here I am again, once there is no more space I need a few days to sort it all out.
Is it better to do it this way or keep on top of it by using precious ‘free’ time during the week?
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