On the left you can see the nice little writing desk my uncle made for me may years ago. I think it's charming. Inasmuch as I own writing tools (and I do), I keep them here. It also seems like a good place to keep mailing supplies like priority mail labels. Somewhat logically, I decided to keep mortgage and Homeowner's Association coupons here, since they were things that need to be mailed. Somewhat less logically, carbon copies of my used checks land here, as well.
Um, I don't need mortgage payment coupons for the mortgage I paid off. I don't really need the HOA coupons either, since I go to the office in person and pay that six months at a time. I definitely don't need copies of checks going back to 2003, given that I track everything in Quicken, can get copies of checks from my credit union, and have never had occasion to refer to a check more than a couple of months old. So, those seventeen (!) old checkbooks got shredded. Also seen, address labels, Christmas ones at that, from my previous address.
The thought here is that by removing these items from the writing desk, the odds go up that if I'm ever looking for something in there, I could actually find it!
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