In some ways, spring cleaning is like a little move we do annually. Instead of moving out of our homes or apartments completely, we look for new ways of redefining the space that attracted us to our living quarters in the first place. Maybe it was the airy, open feel you had moving from the foyer down the hall into the kitchen. Whatever it was, if it seems hidden this time of year, we clean to reclaim it. Of course, there is the anticipation of summer, spring allows us to literally prepare our lives for the next summer season.
In that transition, you may discover so much you’ve just refused to let go of, asking “what if we need it someday?” But wait, Sarah Aguirre at About.com, “Keeping things just because you might need them someday may seem like a good reason for clogging your closets. Remind yourself that what you really need is space and organization.”
Conquering all that clutter can seem like a daunting task, so the key is to start small, get quick wins and keep at it. To adapt Aguirre’s method to receipts, invoices, packing slips, and that old filing cabinet in the corner of your home office, you coud prepare two sets of boxes:
- PIXILY (or)
- TRASH
Because that’s really all you need. If you approach the filing cabinet alone, maybe the only thing that ends up in the trash is the filing cabinet. But all those boxes you mark PIXILY, you can mail them directly to us. With OfficeDrop, you can take back the space your dusty filing cabinets are hogging.
Something like daylight savings time, OfficeDrop grants you document-recovery savings time. Really it’s more like magic than daylight savings time is. T
he way one saves time in a search for files stored with OfficeDrop by using our keyword search practically makes hanging files and minella folders obsolete.
This spring, don’t waste time opening up cabinets, moving stacks of yellowed sheets of paper from one corner of the office to the next, dressing papercut after papercut while you search for receipts you plan to carry over to your tax preparer.
Just ship them in a box to OfficeDrop.
Something Sarah also states that I like to keep in mind, “Items are not equivalent to memories of the person who gave them to you.” But with OfficeDrop, you can have the best of both worlds: posterity and shredding. Take those documents you kind of want to throw away but feel that sentimental attachement too and let us, first, digitize them, allowing you instant access to them whenever and wherever you want. Then, second, let us shred them to pieces. We love to recycle.
