http://cygnoir.net/2006/10/10/cleaning-house/ the black swan with digital wings Wed, 23 May 2012 23:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://cygnoir.net/2006/10/10/cleaning-house/comment-page-1/#comment-1570 emily Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:36:55 +0000 http://www.cygnoir.net/2006/10/10/cleaning-house/#comment-1570 I once went through a period of making "leonade". It's a lesser known beverage usually made exclusively by people born in August. Or <i>of</i> people born in August, I can't remember. I once went through a period of making “leonade”. It’s a lesser known beverage usually made exclusively by people born in August. Or of people born in August, I can’t remember.

]]> http://cygnoir.net/2006/10/10/cleaning-house/comment-page-1/#comment-1572 Rebecca Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:53:56 +0000 http://www.cygnoir.net/2006/10/10/cleaning-house/#comment-1572 Re: Filing. I came up with a new system a few years ago that I adore. It's called 'boxes' and the categories are time. I usually used shoe boxes but you could get nice legit storage boxes for aesthetic effect. Each box gets a 6-month time period and all assorted papers that must be saved go in the box. Usually bills but also shopping receipts, instruction manuals, whatever. On the infrequent occasion that I actually need something out of one of the boxes, it's usually not hard to recollect which 6-month period it came from and then dig through. And then, old boxes can be moved under the bed and if you don't take it out for a year, toss the whole box. I used to sort all my papers by subject in a filing cabinet but I got sick of deciding on categories and then sorting through them to clean out old stuff. Your boxes could be 4- or 3-month size depending on your quantity of saving. These days, I don't get any mail or bills so the system is temporarily suspended. Hugs. Re: Filing. I came up with a new system a few years ago that I adore. It’s called ‘boxes’ and the categories are time. I usually used shoe boxes but you could get nice legit storage boxes for aesthetic effect. Each box gets a 6-month time period and all assorted papers that must be saved go in the box. Usually bills but also shopping receipts, instruction manuals, whatever. On the infrequent occasion that I actually need something out of one of the boxes, it’s usually not hard to recollect which 6-month period it came from and then dig through. And then, old boxes can be moved under the bed and if you don’t take it out for a year, toss the whole box. I used to sort all my papers by subject in a filing cabinet but I got sick of deciding on categories and then sorting through them to clean out old stuff. Your boxes could be 4- or 3-month size depending on your quantity of saving. These days, I don’t get any mail or bills so the system is temporarily suspended. Hugs.

]]> http://cygnoir.net/2006/10/10/cleaning-house/comment-page-1/#comment-1571 David Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:12:49 +0000 http://www.cygnoir.net/2006/10/10/cleaning-house/#comment-1571 One of the things I've learned about keys going bad is you never realize how much you use a particular character until you can't have that one anymore :-) One of the things I’ve learned about keys going bad is you never realize how much you use a particular character until you can’t have that one anymore :-)

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