Is it Memory Lane if they're not your memories?

[slowfox]

In anticipation of our office move, we've been clearing out the vast accumulation of papers that both ourselves and our predescessors had built up in the office. The record, so far, would seem to be a set of papers from 1988... 21 years old, I'm figuring that they can be safely shredded/recycled.

Dust everywhere, and although we seem to have broken the back of the task, now, there's still a fair bit more to do. And unlike home, for example, where clearing out has a sort of therapeutic feel to it, the office just looks more and more impersonal the more stuff we excise...

Comments

[linaelyn]

I've got the itch to clear out my home of the dust rhinos that have accumulated under/around the piles of far-too-much-crap infesting my domicile.

I do not have buy-in from my fellow residents, however. And time is always scarce.

Still, your posts on the topic are inspiring, even if your office is becoming more and more impersonal in the process.

Best of luck with the continued effort toward relocation.

[slowfox]

Well, one of the four in this office upped sticks and left yesterday.

Unfortunately, said colleague upped sticks before checking that there was actually a place to down sticks at the other end, and thus ended up squatting at my intended desk. Have negotiated competitive desk-space rental terms with the trigger-happy coder, though, so all's well :-)

[cynthia_black]

At least the new work residence will be free of all the unnecessary parts, while still retaining whatever character you and your colleagues choose to give it :-)

[slowfox]

At least the new work residence will be free of all the unnecessary parts

Um... not really! We're being moved into oooooooold accommodation (think bare concrete, sub-functional windows and over-enthusiastic heating {you can't turn it off}). It's much perceived as a step down from the current abode, but that notwithstanding, I still want to move, just so that the process is over and done with.