Slight detour on my lofting journey, but still related.
I bought a 100cm wide, 3 drawer, sidefiler cabinet from some distance away. DH had to drive me there to collect it as it wouldn't fit in my tiny car. It was a lovely journey, we added in a couple of other bargain pick ups (one for us and one for my brother), and we had lunch on the way home.
The new filing cabinet weighs a ton, has concrete in the bottom. DH took it apart and we enlisted the help of DB to get it up the stairs and back together again.
The reason it's connected to de-lofting is that we removed a 4 drawer standard filing cabinet from the loft the day before. That was fun. My DB came to help,
Two of the drawers were full of CDs, which are now crated and labelled. Two drawers were crammed with paperwork, some of which I'd already organised into box files so the kids would know they could just dispose of it. I decided I'd dispose of it myself, but this required me to go through everything to make sure it had been scanned, and to scan (or rescan) where necessary.
We replaced it with a 2 drawer cabinet from the study, which I'd emptied into crates. The other two drawer cabinet was damaged, so that was emptied into more crates and taken to the tip.
I took the opportunity to pull out old paperwork, and I've been working every day at making sure everything had been scanned, and reorganising the electronic files.
The paperwork to be burned was piling up, a crate full. Two thirds of it came from the fuilking cabinets. The other third came from me emptying my old work related loft boxes. It didn't seem right to just bin some of the paperwork I had, so that all needed burning as well.
I've been waiting for an unsunny day to start burning stuff, and today was the day. I'm not quite through it all, but I should be finished tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the lateral filing cabinet is in place, and I spent Friday and Saturday (and part of today) trying to organise stuff/ The organising of this spilled over so I was trying to go through everything in the study as well.
I've removed a lot of stuff which doesn't belong in there, and now the guest bedroom also needs a sort out. I'll get to that later. Much later.
The study is the box room, and it contains the traditional "big cupboard " over the stairwell. This also needs a bit of a sort out, I'll have to see what enthusiasm I can muster. I'm ignoring it at the moment, I'm focussing on the pile of stuff from the rest of the room.
I've made good progress. I've been ruthless, again, and I've got a pile of stuff to donate and a load of stuff I've binned. A few items are saleable, but I don't have the patience for that right now.
The files that are remaining are back in the loft filing cabinet, and I've only used one drawer.
The four drawer cabinet was advertised and collected the following day, which was great.
My focus for the next few days needs to be getting the study back. However, I've put more (empty) crates in the loft, ready for my next foray up there.
And the new cabinet is in place.
