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azurelunatic) wrote2024-05-17 12:22 am
azurelunatic) wrote2024-05-17 12:22 am
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The Paperening
As part of feeling like I have a little more energy than just the rock bottom minimum, I have been attempting to Sort Through Paper.
The biggest adder-of-loose-paper to the household has to be Medical Shenanigans, with Shopping right behind. In particular, nearly every medical appointment I attend generates several sheets, and every incoming prescription also has its load.
So this past week-ish, I have been picking up papers out of boxes, and sorting them thus:
Medical (prescription, not-prescription)
Not-Medical
Scrap (recycle, shred, slice)
Garbage
Having exhausted the charms of one good stack, I moved on to another, and when I started trying to stuff red folders into the filing cabinet, I found even a few blue folders in there. So I separated medical by year, and then Prescription into Receipt and Literature. Because you can drop the volume of paper considerably if you only retain one copy of Literature per drug per year. (And when 2030 rolls around, I'll be able to compress 10 folders down to 1 slightly thicker folder; I have a Pre-2021 Literature folder and then I will have a 2020s Literature folder.)
And then sorting an already rough-sorted folder looked more attractive than that next box. So more blue folders sprang up.
Yesterday (Wednesday) was supposed to be a rest day, but thanks to careful meditationcation, I did an entire 12 dots of Papers.
My to-do lists have a particular feature for Neverending Slog tasks. They don't have checkboxes, or even progress bars (exactly). I write the task heading, and underneath I draw approximately ten little circles. I then get to fill in those bubbles with a pen/marker of my choice. Or if I'm doing something that wasn't on my list, I still get to make myself some dots, to represent the hard work I have been doing.
Maybe there's more than Ten Dots of dishes, but ten dots is #goals for the day. It's not a completed progress bar, because that implies that the Dishes are Done (Dishbox Zero) but it is what I hoped I'd be able to do today.
I did so many papers yesterday. So so many.
Today I did not do one single paper, but the folder with all the random 2023 prescriptions (some of which were in very wrong folders before) is sitting under a few heavy-ish things and those papers are losing some of their crumple.
The biggest adder-of-loose-paper to the household has to be Medical Shenanigans, with Shopping right behind. In particular, nearly every medical appointment I attend generates several sheets, and every incoming prescription also has its load.
So this past week-ish, I have been picking up papers out of boxes, and sorting them thus:
Medical (prescription, not-prescription)
Not-Medical
Scrap (recycle, shred, slice)
Garbage
Having exhausted the charms of one good stack, I moved on to another, and when I started trying to stuff red folders into the filing cabinet, I found even a few blue folders in there. So I separated medical by year, and then Prescription into Receipt and Literature. Because you can drop the volume of paper considerably if you only retain one copy of Literature per drug per year. (And when 2030 rolls around, I'll be able to compress 10 folders down to 1 slightly thicker folder; I have a Pre-2021 Literature folder and then I will have a 2020s Literature folder.)
And then sorting an already rough-sorted folder looked more attractive than that next box. So more blue folders sprang up.
Yesterday (Wednesday) was supposed to be a rest day, but thanks to careful medi
My to-do lists have a particular feature for Neverending Slog tasks. They don't have checkboxes, or even progress bars (exactly). I write the task heading, and underneath I draw approximately ten little circles. I then get to fill in those bubbles with a pen/marker of my choice. Or if I'm doing something that wasn't on my list, I still get to make myself some dots, to represent the hard work I have been doing.
Maybe there's more than Ten Dots of dishes, but ten dots is #goals for the day. It's not a completed progress bar, because that implies that the Dishes are Done (Dishbox Zero) but it is what I hoped I'd be able to do today.
I did so many papers yesterday. So so many.
Today I did not do one single paper, but the folder with all the random 2023 prescriptions (some of which were in very wrong folders before) is sitting under a few heavy-ish things and those papers are losing some of their crumple.
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Impressive!
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*glares at the shredder full of Things To Shred*
*it glares back*
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Crumpled paper is the worst — it feels like it’s glaring at me.
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Congratulations!
I usually toss prescription literature because 1. my drug list doesn't change much; 2. I can find the information online if I need it. First time I get a new scrip I'll read the insert and keep it around for a little while, but after that it can go.
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