What a chore!! I'm finding stuff that I must have put in there the day I started 24 years ago. I just drug a big old 25 gallon trash can next to the desk. I don't see how these little drawers can hold so much! Bad thing is, I haven't found any $20 Bills yet, just a few pennies.

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Georgia On My Mind

Are you sure it shouldn't be archived?
Let some future anthropoligist try to puzzle out the reason you kept it in the first place.

Hopefully the reason you are cleaning out is because you have retired, and are joining the legion of more relaxed, time to hunt S&W's, individuals.

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H Richard
SWCA1967 SWHF244

Some find the process sad. I'm doing the same thing and enjoying it. I've got just under a month to go, and every day I'm tossing stuff out. Things I would never pitch out if I were staying because I know I'd eventually have a use for them. But now I just don't care.

Everyone doesn't go through the process. I just found a grease pencil. Yes, the kind we could forge serials on the bottoms of boxes. Its got a little rip cord that peals off 1/8" of paper to expose a similar amount of hard, black grease. Its probably the left overs from the prior occupant of this desk. I've only been in this building for 20 years, and he was long gone by the time I ascended to this office.

Coins are fun. I'm finding copper pennies! You know, the coinage of our youth, the ones made from copper, not the copper plated pot metal ones.

Last month I had some riggers in to remove an ancient heat exchanger from the company lunch room. Under the thing was an assortment of coins. Most stuck in the floor by ages (this joint was built in 1951) of spilled drinks, etc. Everyone was laughing at the old man (me) digging in the dried wax and varnish. Yes, I was digging out silver dimes and quarters! Its the kind of low denomination coins the kids toss in the gutter.

I've even saved old company announcements from the past. They're interesting to read, but into the garbage can they go.

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Dick Burg

I didn't have a desk when I pulled the plug in 1988. Just a Econoline phone truck. Took my small tools & rain gear, left my climbing hooks & belt & never looked back. No coins or other memorbelia just a lot of memories of the last 38 years.

It's always a good thing to periodically go through ones desk and get rid of incriminating items. The Bar association has a rule for solo practitioners-everyone has to have a designated buddy who's job is upon hearing of your death to get to your desk and clear out the porn and then wash your computer drives The lawyers with partners don't need it-cuse upon their death their partners will be through his desk like locusts before the body is cool

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I will let someone else do it. There's nothing in my desk that I want.

That reminds me of a similar story. I had a buddy who was in Congress and officed in the Longworth Office Bldg. He said that every Representative there had one staff member who's job was to arrive at the office very early with the express purpose of checking the flag pole. If Old Glory was at half staff, they were to go immediately to the House Sergeant at Arms to see who died and if they were higher in the pecking order, to put in an application for the deceased member's office. Seemed a little cold but after all, it's politics.

Bob

And guess who's paying the exorbitant salaries of those aides?

I did find a small adjustable wrench and a pair of the expensive little pliers I used to keep in my pocket all the time. Nothing incriminating.

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Georgia On My Mind

Found any guns you forgot you had? I did once.