Moving Day

Today I was surprised to learn that I was moving cubicles all the way to a new building.

Well, I wasn't that surprised. I knew it was coming, but no one had confirmed a date or time with me. I had one box packed and around 10 am suddenly these two guys were at my cubicle with a cart.

I scrambled, scrounged some boxes and quickly threw things into a packed sort of state. And in a few hours I had unpacked and found myself in a new work place environment.

As I quickly packed I didn't really have time to sort through stuff and toss/ recycle what was not needed at the new place. So unpacking was kind of an adventure determining what to keep and what to get rid of.

And then I came across these things that I just don't quite know what to do with. I have about 400 of them and the instinct is to toss them in the blue bin to meet another destiny due to the miracle of recycling... but something inside me tells me to keep them. And I know that every day I don't toss them the more I will have the urge to keep them and I will probably collect more in a few more days.

You know those three-ring binder dividers with the plastic tabs? Well, in each packet of five dividers you get something like 50 paper tabs to go in the plastic tabs (color coded if you have 5 extra cents). I have recently put together several binders of information using about 15 dividers in each, using only 15 of the 50ish paper tabs provided. This leaves me with quite a lot of paper tabs.

I just stuck them on a shelf somewhere, or threw them in a drawer. And today they all came together in a nice little pile waiting their destiny.

I think that if I were to ask you if I should keep or toss, many of you would tell me to toss them. So, instead, I ask you to stretch your mind and tell me: If I keep them, what other purpose can they serve?

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I might just do it. I can be crafty that way.