More shredding, and a couple of pickle barrels later a stack of legal papers is lighter (free of duplicates) and now tucked away in a file drawer, and while I was at it I weeded paper from the floor of the office closet, mostly graduate school stuff. Several inches of paper went out, but about 1/2 of it remains in an "sort and file" stack. It was too much to organize as well as thin; this first pass was to get rid of the stuff I positively know I don't need to keep.

On my errand run this evening I'll drop paper off at the recycle bin. Shall I swing by Goodwill while I'm at it? The 4-drawer file cabinet is empty--can I really let go of it? Why not!

SRS Who does actually still have a life and who is getting a bit tired of all of this, but knows it's her own damn fault it got so cluttered.