A couple weekends ago we got a new to us nifty file cabinet.
It has 3 drawers on the left & a door on the right. Open the door & it
has a small safe & 2 shelves. We snatched this up for $15 from a yard sale.
It needed to have the safe combo picked. Well, to have that done by someone would have cost around $50
& done some damage to the door. We figured out how to get the door off,
losing only the 2 hinge pins. We took apart the door/combo lock & got the
combo to the safe.
Put it all back together & now all we need is new pins
to use that part. The drawer side had a stuck slider & no key for the lock.
No biggie, as we just disengaged the slider & lock. The door also had a
lock with no key. That one was easy to repair with a new lock for $4.
It now sits comfortably in the closet of the spare room.
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| not filled yet but working on it. |
Having this new place to put files of course leads to going
thru our files … which led to finding old papers from when the girls were in
school. So before just re-filing them, again, I asked if they would like to
have them so I don’t have to keep them anymore. My oldest responded with a yes.
No word from my younger one yet. Now, as I pulled the papers out I knew there
were more somewhere. So this led to me pulling containers of keep it stuff down
from the top of the closet in the spare room.
Holy cow what did I get into?
What I got into was the past … lots of cards exchanged between me & hubby,
cards & letters from my Omi to me & the girls, letters from my older
daughter when she had to spend summers with her dad, and so much more. This was
on top of all the school papers, report cards, award ribbons & certificates
& old pictures & a couple year booklets. So there I sat, going thru it
all just enough to make 2 piles, one for each of my daughters. I could sit
& go thru them again enjoying some of the memories … but I think the girls
are old enough now to maybe appreciate some of this too.
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| kids stuff - 2 piles & 2 big folders w/artwork |
It’s funny how attempting to organize one new thing leads to
re-organizing several other things. I now have one file box under my desk area
that has paper, labels & all the extra file folders I have left over stored
neatly away, within reach. One drawer of the cabinet has all our personal file
stuff while the middle drawer has all my business stuff. The bottom drawer will
house all misc stuff. Feels kinda good to once again be a bit more organized in
this area. While going thru the kids stuff & several containers from the
closet I managed to repack some things into fewer containers. So that was a
plus as well.
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| misc files let to sort |
I have a small stack of misc stuff to go thru & file
into some sort of organized system. I know I have plenty of folders for the
task!
Next I really need to organize some of my misc business *stuff*
better. I have several containers full of … stuff. Stuff to mount & mat
some images but I want to use these things in a different way now. Stuff for
packaging product. Stuff for … making things (parts) and just more … stuff. Of
course its also the time o year where I really need to get moving on making new
2013 calendars for the upcoming holiday show as well as anything else new for
the holidays. I think being a bit more organized might help me focus better on
the next things. We’ll see. Here’s hoping the organizing of the biz containers
goes quick!
