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From: "Frances Myette" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Clutter As a Filing System
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:27:56 -0400
References: <BAY7-F58XdFw0ei74A40006f326@hotmail.com>


Vivien!.... I would say you are very right and you
should 'definitely stick to it'... :>)) .... After all...
kind of like the bedrooms of teenagers...and they
are 'quite contented' !!

Frances

----- Original Message -----
From: "vivien bercier" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Clutter As a Filing System


> Hi all,
>
> Somewhere I seem to remember that psychologists had made a study of
people's
> habits with desk tidiness and had come to the conclusion that a cluttered
> desk was a sign of a content mind. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to
it!!
>
> Vivien
>
>
> >From: "Frances Myette" <>
> >To:
> >Subject: Re: [Q-R] Clutter As a Filing System
> >Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:55:11 -0400
> >
> >Love it Dave!...and I can agree with you as well!~!
> >What's that old saying...'many a true thing said in
> >a joke'... :>)) Thanks for your good humour on
> >another rainy afternoon!
> >
> >Frances
> >Toronto
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Dave Constantine" <>
> >To: <>
> >Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 12:44 AM
> >Subject: [Q-R] Clutter As a Filing System
> >
> >
> > > Based on my mild attempt at humor, although NONE of it was untrue, and
> >the
> >numerous responses that have appeared on the list I have reached certain
> >conclusions. Firstly, everyone must have a filing system that is quick
and
> >easy to use for them. Print a page, take off the printer, place
> >haphazardly
> >on nearest pile, done. What could be faster? Some of you may be saying,
> >yeah but it'll take forever to find that page. I say to you, so what, by
> >tomorrow you will have forgotten it exists and never have to look for it.
> >In fact, the next time you see it will probably be during one of those
> >misguided attempts to "clean things up a little", and you are not going
to
> >know what the hell it is or why you kept it, so then it will go into a
> >different pile marked, in your mind only, of course, Keep Until Proven
> >Useless. Since it will never be proven useless - I mean how, you don't
> >know
> >what it is - it will stay in that pile until your relatives come over to
> >clean out your things... I !
> > > think you know why. They will pick up this slightly faded but
otherwise
> >perfect piece of paper and put it into a box with the other "valuable"
> >family papers you have collected over the years for transfer to the
nearest
> >genealogical society or library for archiving. It will no doubt sit
there
> >for a few hundred years before some über-nerd will be going thru all of
> >these ancient papers and come across this aged page. After a few minutes
> >of
> >study he will, no doubt, turn to the other über-nerds and say, "Another
> >piece of Holy Doctrine from one of the 20th century cults, we'll save it.
> >Oh, you can get rid of the rest of this stuff."
> > >
> > > Dave Constantine in Boston
> > > after 6/30 change to
> > >
> > >
> > >
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