Surprise, a floor!

I spent 15 more minutes in the computer room last night, burned another bag of trash, and found the paper that I was looking for back on the day I started FLYlady! I had already come to the same conclusions about what to keep and what to toss as what that paper said, so I felt good about that.

This morning, when I went in the computer room to get my iPod off the charger, I was surprised to see the floor of the room, all the way from the door to the computer in the opposite corner. Wow!

In the process of purging and sorting the last couple of days, I found a car title, a motorcycle title from Iowa that we apparently never transferred, and my estimated property tax statement for this year. Treasure-tastic!

I still have to buck up and burn my books of duplicate checks, but I really want to make sure I don't burn one that's too recent. I think I already burned my accident claim stuff from when I got rear-ended. Oops. And I'm not keeping a year's worth of paycheck stubs. That would involve looking at dates. Takes too long.

I'll plan on filing all the auto stuff in my auto folder (currently somewhere near my green file bin). My bank account statements can go in the filing cabinet, maybe in folders by year? So there'd be 12 or 24 envelopes in each folder (depending on if I find/kept Joel's statements). Anything else in that filing cabinet just needs to go.

I think the bottom drawer is all my creative writing and school stuff. If I try going through that I'll get horribly sidetracked, so I think it will all stay put for now. The top drawer should be able to be significantly purged, though, if it wasn't already. I can probably almost get to it now.

And I have no clue what's in that green bin now. Auto stuff, yes. Retirement maybe? Tax documents? Instruction manuals up the wazoo. But what else? It's pretty full. More treasure?

In other news, I'll have to empty the hampers to run my next load of laundry, after I do the whites. Er, I'll have to empty the hampers, then do the whites, then maybe I'll have another load after that. I've begun sorting my work clothes separately from other clothes. That's because I will actually get around to washing them with this system.

And my kitchen sink is still shiny. :-)