I gave the desk downstairs a long-overdue cleaning Saturday. The top of the desk features some of my baseball card binders, mostly the newer stuff. It also features all of my card-mailing instruments: top loaders, penny sleeves, bubble mailers, markers, labels, you name it. But the reason I was cleaning it is because the desk drawers are loaded with stuff that I don't really need anymore. One holds newspaper sports sections that I've produced. Another holds a variety of things, such as old Sports Illustrated articles, high school alumni newsletters, baseball magazines, and random notecards . The middle drawer holds "grown-up stuff": health care information. Changes in work policies. Quarterly updates on retirement plans/investments, etc. The handle on that drawer is busted, making it difficult to open. But I don't care, because I don't like opening that drawer very often. However, I opened that drawer Saturday to see if there was anything I could trash. And t...
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