Shredder Ceremony Time

September 12, 2007 at 8:43 pm Leave a comment

It’s almost time for a shredder ceremony. We found boxes with receipts, etc going way back to the ’80s. That prompted me to stop in at Costco and buy a long overdue shredder. I think I can operate this one without a tutorial. The MacBook is still in the box.

It’s been most interesting to open boxes from the attic and see artifacts from different decades of my life. We even found a couple of boxes of antique bottles from IBM days living in East Windsor/Hightstown, NJ. It was fun collecting them.

There are still six file drawers of paper to go through, some of which will be shredded. Most of the folders haven’t been opened in ten or more years. There’s no time for sentimentality.

The Salvation Army truck will be here tomorrow to pick up somewhere around 30 boxes of household stuff, clothes and office supplies. I hope someone gets good use out of all of it.

There was a twinge of nostalgia when I dumped my wardrobe of good quality double breasted suits ( size 33″ waist ) into a big box. A 33″ waist isn’t likely to happen again in this lifetime, but 34″ works after my recent weight loss.

There’s still a lot of junk to get rid of but I can finally see some light at the end of the tunnel. It would be nice to shine some light on where the truck is going.