Twenty-one years at the organization. Eleven years in this office. Decades of binders, research material, reports, and contracts. As I start to remove all trace of my having occupied this office, I have a mountain of a task ahead of me. I should have been reviewing and purging all along the way, but with a couple book shelves ready to hold yet one more binder, I let them accumulate. There is no turning back now. I am trying to make sure I don't throw anything of current or archival value, though most anything current probably has an electronic version. That is my task tomorrow-to clean and organize electronic files into neat and organized accessible folder for my mangers and my successor. I take a lot of pride in the work I have done here, and I want the person that takes my role to feel like they can start with success. I also don't want to be known as the crazy hoarder lady. Here are a few pictures at the beginning of the sort and purge. Let this be a lesson to any of you procrastinating or overfilling your shelves. You too may have to tackle a massive mountain someday.
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| Shelves of pictures, desk with piles. |
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| Recycle bin number 1. |
Hmmm - I've been looking at the piles of stuff in my classroom in similar dismay! Good luck with all the changes that are going on at the moment. Jx
ReplyDeleteI've barely tackled the file cabinets not in the pictures.
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