8 Comments »

• 1
  

  Ha! We moved in here six years ago and there are still boxes of papers shoved in the back of a closet. One of my New Year’s resolutions is to clean them out!

  Two weeks ago, I finally made it through my box of 8th grade lesson plans! OH, those classroom memories! Next on the list…my box of ESL lesson plans

  Comment by Kelly — January 27, 2010 @ 7:28 am

• 2
  

  Well, at least you bought a living shredder recently. She should take care of a good deal of the backlog.

  Comment by D. Gale — January 27, 2010 @ 9:42 am

• 3
  

  Yeah, I have some immediate “To-Do’s” that are located somewhere in those boxes.

  One is that I need to find a receipt for some frames that I purchased a year ago in New York. Now the framers are calling me and harassing me and saying that I did not pay.

  The other issue is related to some hospital bills.

  When did life get so complicated with papers? Everyday I have about 5 useless catalogs mailed to me along with other junk mail. Papers papers, papers. Perhaps Yuki can shred as you said, D. Gale and my little family and I can go live off the grid.

  Comment by Alison — January 27, 2010 @ 11:49 am

• 4
  

  Call the catalogs and tell them to cancel. That’s what I did. It takes a few months, but they stop coming.

  Comment by kelly — January 27, 2010 @ 5:34 pm

• 5
  

  What happened to your Green Dimes membership??? Or whatever they’re called now.

  Comment by mary hatch bailey — January 27, 2010 @ 6:02 pm

• 6
  

  I know, I know… I should deal with the catalogs. I did this once and it wasn’t so hard but it did take some effort to call the company of every single catalog I get in the mail. I get A LOT of catalogs. I’ll get to it when Penny goes to nursery school.

  But that’s not the only problem. Is it just me? I find the paper trail of life just extraordinarily complex. And I find that companies make a lot of mistakes. Somewhat related to paper… a huge amount of things I buy are already broken or end up breaking very quickly. What do I do with that? And do I have time to deal with it?

  Not usually. So broken things as well as boxes of papers sit in my basement.

  Comment by Alison — January 27, 2010 @ 8:12 pm

• 7
  

  my old house is huge

  grandparent’s ephemera

  packed tight in one room…

  and we won’t even talk about the many
  years and years of my stuff.

  Comment by johanna — January 28, 2010 @ 5:26 am

• 8
  

  if you paid for the frames with a credit card, then it might be easier to locate the statement online showing that you paid. you can also reference the transaction number.

  Comment by Marisa — January 28, 2010 @ 6:06 pm

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment