posted on May 31, 2004 08:56:15 AM new
Wow. I'm just thinking what the Clean Sweep (TLC) crew would do with some of our offices.
Some of your pictures look exactly like the "before" pictures of offices on Clean Sweep! I am procrastinating on taking my own pictures to show you all but will do so soon.
HOWEVER--I can find anything in my office quickly. I know where everything is, which is more than some of my friends and relatives can say about their neat offices.
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posted on May 31, 2004 08:59:00 AM newthen put the most of it in storage somewhere for a future garage sale.
I say this in hopes that you will be wiser than I was.
When I closed down my first office in 2002, I put everything left into storage: records, rolling wire racks, books, furniture, you name it. All business equipment, very little of sentimental value. That storage space cost me $390 a month. I was there for about a year.
Through organization and conscious toss-it-in-the-dumpster effort, I whittled that stuff down to about half, and moved to a smaller unit in a different storage facility. This one was only ("only"!) $195 a month. Again, I was there for about a year.
When I opened my new office a couple of months ago, everything from the storage unit went into a spare office area.
I did the math on my storage use. Now, keep in mind these are or were typical rents for various-sized storage units in my area. The two years of storage cost me $7,020. There was NOTHING stored worth anywhere near that. If I had simply trashed everything in 2002 and bought all new when I moved into my new office, I still would have been $4,000 or $5,000 ahead.
Think this one through and don't make the same mistake I did.
Storage facilities make as much money as they do because people suffer from inertia. The LAST thing I wanted to do after I closed my office was deal with all the furniture and other crap, so I stashed it away so I wouldn't have to look at it. It's a high price to pay for procrastination.
