Yesterday I spent 15 minutes attacking my computer room. (I didn't get a chance to start on Monday. It's a long story.) I ended up with one paper bag full of paperwork to burn and one with some papers to file away later. Burning the papers without looking back was very liberating. I figure, even if I burned something that maybe I need in the future, I wouldn't have been able to find it in that mess anyhow!
There are still plenty of papers strewn about, but now I can see the carpet again!
I'll be bribing my husband into helping me for 15 minutes one day this week by fixing stuffed shells for dinner. He can probably knock out the bathroom single-handedly, and I'll keep at it in the computer room. And then after we move out of this zone, I'll try to start working in 5-minute room rescues to keep lightening the load in there. I'll know I'm in the home stretch when I'm sorting through the 2 paper bags of papers I moved into the house with us in October!
That will just be the clearing out part. Then I'll have to decide how I want to sort, organize, and store the "important" papers. I have a filing cabinet and another hanging-file basket that are meant for this sort of stuff. I think they're just full of papers that probably need to go in my "burn" bag right now. Or maybe they're empty and I don't know because I can't get to them. We'll see. Maybe that will be next month -- 15 minutes at a time!
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