5 Clues that Your Home Office Has Too Much Clutter
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006#5 — You’ve started appreciating the “aesthetic value” of colorful junk mail in your paper piles.
#4 — Your heating and cooling bills are lower because your paper insulates the house.
#3 — Your spouse has posted a picture of your “archives” on his blog and is looking to technology for help .
#2 — Finding the phone bill has been your full-time job for a week (and you’re still searching…)
And the #1 clue that your office has too much clutter… (drumroll)
National Geographic has come to photograph your Leaning Tower of Paper.
p.s. Kudos to the Lists - Group Writing Project at ProBlogger.net for inspiring this fun post. It’s a great project to get your creativity going! Have you got a list to share, too?
August 17th, 2006 at 7:10 am
Now this is a great list. Unfortunately #5 shows the problem with keeping vast amounts of unfiled archives, time lost while you could be doing better thing, but the insulation valuation does have something going for it.
Great picture your husband has. Have you considered one of those rented self-storage units for things you absolutely have to have on paper. I know writers can end up with a lot.
I want to see the “National Geographic” pictures when they’re done!
August 17th, 2006 at 7:49 am
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August 17th, 2006 at 11:34 am
ROTFL!! Oh dear, at least I’m not that bad… yet….
Our list is up if you’d like to look - http://lilduckduck.com/ducky-moments-in-time/240 - have a great day!
August 17th, 2006 at 11:45 am
The first sign I need to clean my desk is when the ants show up looking for handouts.
August 17th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Hi Rick!
Happy you liked the list! As far as a renting a storage unit, I don’t think we need to go that far yet
Actually, I’m starting to agree with John that ALMOST everything can be scanned. When I’ve had to find materials he’s already put on the computer, it’s so much easier than going through paper!
As far as writers needing paper, I’ve found that I do have to do my final revisions like that. That’s seems to help me keep things straight. I guess I’m pretty old-school in that way!
Cheers!
Cuileann
August 17th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Nice to meet you, Mama Duck!
Glad you found the list funny! Thanks for the heads-up about your list, too! We’ve got a baby nephew and can definitely relate to your thoughts about Lil Duck! Actually, I’ll send my sister (the mom) over to your blog too — I know she’ll get a kick out of it!
Thanks for saying hi!
Cuileann
August 17th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Hi Anton!
Ah, yes, ants. Once in a while, a scout from somewhere will show up on my hubby’s desk. John likes to snack while he’s working or playing on the computer, so I guess they’re questing for crumbs.
May we all never be invaded by a troop!
Cuileann
August 17th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Boy this sounds a lil like my computer room!…
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August 17th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
Howdy!
Good luck with your computer room clutter, and thanks for the link!
Cheers!
Cuileann
August 17th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Fun list…and i’ve got the stacks to appreciate it too!
August 17th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Hi Jersey Girl!
So you’ve got stacks, too! If we were to stack all of our stacks together, I wonder how far it would reach into space?
Good luck with all the paper!
Cuileann
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