All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

Purging

Shredded like crazy

In GTD, Organizing, Purging on 24 August 2005 with 4 comments

I didn’t go to work yesterday to take care of some school stuff (and something else that shall remain nameless until it’s over with). In between “appointments”, I was at home working at my desk on all the stuff that’s accumulated. I have a single drawer for Letter-sized hanging files. I’m supposed to go through periodically and purge anything in my folders that don’t need to be there anymore, but I haven’t done that - ever. I shredded everything that I didn’t need to keep anymore, and ended up dumping about five 13-gallon plastic bags of shredded paper. My drawer feels better, and I haev some manila folders I can reuse for something else. I used 43 folders the other day to create my tickler file, so this makes up for those used folders.

I have a lot to go with the other aspects of my desk. I think I bought too much supplies than I know where to store them.