Filing!

[jack]

I feel a morbid urge to categorise every nerdy thing I end up doing, as a sort of "screw you" to people who think they get to determine what's cool. Much enjoyment has been had at country dancing, at science fiction cons, at strip jenga, in doing maths for fun, etc, etc.

I think today may be the first time I've said "Yay, filing!" though.

But yay! I have a filing cabinet. I triaged everything in my giant concertina folder, threw away junk, and filed everything by company. I have spare hangers and spare space, so when more post comes in, I can just file it, and not have to think "where do I put this? maybe I should leave it by the computer in case I need it..." :)

Now, I've gone back and am clearing out a couple of folders that have been hanging around since university.

I found a membership to blockbuster. We only used it once or twice, every time having an argument about whose membership was most convenient and which blockbuster was closest. Now the whole industry is going bankrupt.

When book tokens say "no expiry time" do they actually mean it?

Comments

[rmc28]

Filing is really awesome. Being able to lay your hands on the right vital piece of paper in a few seconds when you need it in a hurry: priceless.

[jack]

Yay, yes. I've spent so long with "piles of stuff" it's almost impossible to imagine I can ever find the thing I need, but it happens more and more often.

I also note, I find it doesn't matter if you sometimes can't remember if bank stuff is filed under "bank" or "finance" or "HSBC" as long as it's easy to check, what's fatal is when it's spread across several places according to some organisation system that made sense five years ago eg. "urgent stuff goes here", so you can never be sure if you've found it or not.