Spending Time With the Shredder

Yesterday morning I tackled one of those jobs just slightly above oven cleaning on my hate to do list. Did you know that once you relegate papers to a file cabinet you are unlikely to ever look at them again?

Well, at some point the whole thing gets so crammed with stuff that you can't fit one more "dead papers" file in there, and somebody has to cull. (I'm not complaining that it will have to be me, but Good Guy would just go buy another file cabinet.)

So I situated myself in there with a mug of coffee and the shredder, and a timer and I shredded old check registers, and a couple hours worth of useless papers. I probably could devote another morning to going through the rest of the stuff. I got a little sidetracked in looking at old pictures I found, and reading letters from people no longer among us.

Gone, the warranties and directions to appliances long gone. Gone, duplicates of pamphlets of wise advise about retirement. Gone, old dental bills and insurance info from years ago.

Now I will feel that the job is completed when I drop off the bags of paper and shredded stuff at the paper recycling center. Indulge me with a pat on the back. Please.

(About the header------I fiddled around endlessly making a new collage, which turned out to be a tiny thing instead of a full across the top header. Back to the drawing board, or Photobucket, as the case may be.) I must be a very slow learner......