2 Gigs @ Work

The past two weeks, I have been preparing for a temporary move of stuff at work for new carpet to be laid. Usually, it is 15 minutes here or an hour there to remove and trash old work files, many times it was just scratch like documents that were part of a completed project or an idea that never really took off. As a result, I went from 14 gigs worth of files stored on a computer down to 2 gigs. Some of the keys were:

- use a fresh folder to only put in files in that are keepers.

- save items if possible that can be in template form that are temporary instead of historical. Go one needed copy instead of 15x or so of the same thing for historical purposes of little value.

- use of a "-" designator on file folders to symbolize good files folders to keep.

- to only have to folders deep.

- much of the 14gigs was to video clips of a project two summers ago that I never really had

time to complete for the children's department.

In the process, I probably had 10 different file folders labeled "to sort" or miscellaneous of some kind or another. There were folders buried within folders and repeatedly. My next project is to do the same thing for the two boxes of documents that I can probably and realistically get down to about 10 inches worth of documents and probably in reality only need about 6 inches. It has been a challenge, and I wish I would have done this a while ago. I have made half hearted attempts. Now it is the challenge to say, "Do I really need such and such document even thou it was important say 5 or 7 years ago?". It is a liberating process to have less stuff at work!