Me again. Sipping my cup of Sleepytime tea to wind down from the excitement of that closet.

Ho, boy, was there some good stuff in there. That I haven't seen in years and don't possibly need any more.

Does anyone still use tractor feed dot matrix paper? I have a couple of reams. Lots of steno pads and some old bond from the university with the seal (no longer in use) but no department information. The print shop binds up various sizes of this extra paper for people to pick up free. Good way to recycle. Maybe I can slip these pads back in there and let someone else have a go at them.

Christmas cards (the extras, plus some I never got around to mailing over a few years) are now all in one cubby in the inexpensive white MDF and Formica shelves (from our days in a small apartment when we needed shelves. They may go if I can get rid of everything that is on them.) Forgotten rechargeable batteries so old I don't want to tempt a fire, so I'll take them to school to recycle.

I found the remainder of the expensive ream of paper I had to buy to print out my thesis back in 1999. And those hanging file folders I KNEW I had but couldn't ever find them. Old RAM from an ancient notebook computer and some adaptors that I haven't a clue as to what they might power. A few oddball gadgets of my father's.

Envelopes full of old grocery receipts (it made sense to keep them for a year, for tax purposes, but not all of these this long).

Etc. etc. etc. I have to sneeze from all of the dust in there.

Good work! And I have at least a cubic foot of unused paper to donate somewhere (or toss in the recycle bin, whichever seems appropriate at the time.) I stacked some backpacks and a courier bag on the luggage shelf of the wire shelves in there (you may recall that I got rid of a bunch of duffels and old packs a few weeks ago). One use for the closet will eventually be to store some of my travel and camping gear.

I haven't opened the file cabinet, and my school essays and papers are still in there, now all on one shelf. They need a good look next. There is a typewriter on the floor. It also needs a good look.

SRS