I cleaned out my desk at home for the first time in a very long time. Many things in my desk were simply transferred into it from a box when I moved into this apartment four years ago. And those things have been probably been blindly transferred from one location to another as I’ve moved around over the last ten years since college. Here are some of the things I found:
- Hundreds of return address labels, you know those free ones you always get in the mail?
- Piles of half-used notepads.
- Remnants of the special stationery I used to write home from summer camp. 20 years ago.
- Colored pencils, crayons, and pens that I haven’t used since college.
- Hundreds of stickers leftover from craft projects from long long ago.
- A melted piece of taffy. Yeah, that was fun to clean up.
- Old name badge from when I volunteered at the Humane Society.
- Name badges from old jobs.
- Nearly a dozen old ball point pens that don’t work anymore.
- Calendar pages from my day planner back to 2006.
- All the manuals and CDs that came with the Dell computer I bought in 2000
Clearly I need to clean my desk more often.
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