2. Overtime approval form from the end of October.
3. Two Christmas cards from coworkers. Both had been opened and read.
4. A potential article with the topic of “rejection.” The note from my boss was to “reject” it. Ironic.
5. Two e-mails from Oct. 8. (This shows how long it’s been since I’ve given my desk a really thorough cleaning. I had taken care of the query contained in the e-mails.)
6. My long-lost staple remover. (How I’d missed it!)
7. An envelope that had been returned to sender (me). A note inside said the recipient hadn’t worked for the company since 1985. (It’s been awhile since I’ve cleaned my desk, but it hasn’t been THAT long.)
8. A note pad that’s been buried since just before Christmas.
9. Multiple copies of various items I refer to often. Apparently, I needed to refer to one of them, couldn’t find it, and printed a new one.
10. Labels that were to be put on boxes when our office moved – in September.
11. A million now-unnecessary Post-it notes.
12. My calculator.
13. The surface of my desk. It’s walnut-colored. I hadn’t remembered.
Sadly, I have multiple surfaces still to clean off. Today’s effort was the area where my keyboard, monitor, etc., live.
Stumble It!
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I think that Post It notes multiply behind our backs when we’re not looking!
Happy TT! mine’s up…
It’s always nice to get organized, huh?
Hurray for a clean desk! Boy I bet that’s like a breath of fresh air. What brought on the change? It’s so much work….
Happy TT!
On a Limb with Claudia
Who opened the cards?
No money?
SJR
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The one with the disorganized but ‘cleaned off’ work area.
Nothing like a clean, organized desk!
Your No. 5 reminds me I owe a friend a letter! Yeesh and egads. Where does time go?
I have a mess here too. I just never seem to clean up. Have a great TT. :)
I feel so great that someone’s desk is a little messier than mine…well, not now. Happy TT!
That sounds like my desk when I was cleaning it up because I quit (I quit because my husband got another job in another state and I was going to be able to be a stay at home mom…my messy desk had nothing to do with it). LOL!
Always nice to know what color your desk is…This sounds like my desk at work when I was working. We had to keep the top clear each day, so I had a drawer to shove everything in.
~ The Mama Bear
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I just took a look at my desk — among other things, there are three boxes of disks and manuals for operating systems from computers we sold more than three years ago. I am such a pack rat. I am going to clean my desk - but it is going to take more than a day. Way more.
I clean my desk about once every two weeks…but by the end of the day I clean it - you can’t tell.
I am up at http://atomik-kitten.sisterrobin.com
I’m impressed you found only 13 things for I fear my list would be over a hundred (and I’m still working on my 101 Things about Me for my 101st post and don’t need THAT!!) LOL
Fun idea for a T-13.
Hugs and blessings,
I love cleaning out my desk because I find ridiculous stuff that i’ve been looking for.
And… i have NO clue what color my desk is.
I like #4 you have a fun way w/ words:>
Oh, I SO need to follow your lead… I know what color my desk is, but I do not know what is on the bottom of a pile or two.
Apparently nothing important!