tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653837337295289572.post5179754781271765367..comments2024-01-09T04:14:43.263-06:00Comments on A Rootdigger: The Genea Bloggers Olympics, Monday Memories, Tombstone Tuesday, Nearly Wordless Wednesday.A rootdiggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653837337295289572.post-47538111677641635142010-02-25T08:30:25.453-06:002010-02-25T08:30:25.453-06:00Jo, Yes, I agree about the filing cabinet. I hav...Jo, Yes, I agree about the filing cabinet. I have debated about that one over and over in my head. I was unsure if I was going to get a tall one or make it tall to save space. At last I decided to eventually remove the table and place the two filing cabinets in the tables spot with a board of the correct length on top just as I have done in the other sunny room. I find that I can move the drawers and then the cabinet can be moved. They are heavy and it is a pain getting them in correctly. <br /><br />Indecision can stall so much progress. thanks for helping. Moving the file cabinets! That is one of the nails that has boarded up my progress<br /><br /> I'll know by the weekend, if I am moving it in there first. It involves the exchange of those cabinets behind all those boxes and bringing in the table. Which may be moved to another location inconveniently to others in the family, while I work on what is in those boxes. However, the boxes have been an inconvenience all along anyway [ thus the guilt]<br />And with your guidance suggestions, i will follow through. I now shall look for those excel spread sheets. I once had excel to open a file. Maybe I need it again. okay. thanks again Jo.A rootdiggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02642330951208433671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653837337295289572.post-31237667998065681692010-02-24T13:13:50.887-06:002010-02-24T13:13:50.887-06:00I have the same problem - small room, too much &qu...I have the same problem - small room, too much "stuff". I intend to start off by buying a <br />full size filing cabinet and files to fit and position it where it should go permanently (it's not gonna move easily by the time you've finished). Drag out one box into another room and inspect the contents. Make a list of what's in it, and then do another one and so on - eventually a pattern will appear, and you can make a second list of categories that the "stuff" falls into: Unidentified photos, identified photos, source documents to be filed, source documents (not sure where/if they fit in) to be filed. Once you have the second list on the go, you can start labelling folders and filling up the filing cabinet. Keep an Excel spreadsheet in searchable PDF format so you know where every item is - then if you need to pull it out, you know which file it's in and which drawer it's in.<br /><br />It's a good theory - I'm off to buy a big cabinet, let me know when you have yours and we can see if the theory holds out :-) JoJohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04360272405643318813noreply@blogger.com