Posted: 5/15/2012 2:43:58 AM EDT
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As I go through the family's stacks of mail, I think I am going to need to get a filing cabinet or three.
Now some might say I ought to just dump things and I try but there is just so much stuff that looks important, like stock reports, it seems better to file it.....and let the next generation figure it out! (joking). I am thinking of just going down to the Office Box store and buying the biggest cheapest ones...but is there a better way to do it? Sure, there are boxes but those begin to suck when the stack gets rather high and to get at the bottom one, well, it's like pulling engines on the BAC Lightning. It's great if it is the top one, but if it is the bottom one, you have to pull them both. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ("You can file your report yourself."––Myerson confining Kendig to a desk job, (w,stte), "Hopscotch") |
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Not sure where you are in TX, but we have used office supply stores here in SA. Lots of options. We have a lateral filing cabinet. Much easier than pulling out a long drawer to get to the items in back. If you want to spend $$ they also make fireproof filing cabinets. Love to have one, but would have to buy a used one. |
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Spend the money and get a heavy duty one. We bought a Hon. Most of the cheap ones available are just that. They get bent, drawers don't slide, etc.
Get organized and have a plan. I keep monthly file folders and empty them every year after tax day and store them in an expandable file. Then only keep 3 years worth of routine crap, 7 years of others. If it's important to keep longer it usually goes into a safe. Best thing I did besides a good solid cabinet was to get a burn barrel. |
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Have any State auctions nearby? Steelcase are the only way to go, once you weed the high paying suckers out, $10-$15 will get you nice one's that, at the most, may need a coat of paint. They will still be better then 99% of the new junk on the market.
[I use them to store ammo cans, if they can handle close to 150-200 lbs of ammo in each drawer, they can handle just about anything][[3 50 cal cans and one 30 cal can]] |
| When I open my office decades ago I went to a creepy old building that had been a downtown sears in the 60s and was now a used office supply store and apparently a place to smoke crack. Got tons of cool madmen era steel furniture. My file cabinets are hard cover. |
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Right now, cheap seems the way to go for two reasons. First of all, there is no plan right now. All there is is to put stuff in some kind of order so it can handled and sorted. I've often said they gave the family's administrative paperwork handling...........to the Collyer sibling.
Secondly, right now, I have 4 file cabinets; the two in most active use are hand me downs and they work rather decently. Of course, looking at the Office store in town, it looks like a 4 drawer vertical costs at least $120. The cheapest isn't cheap! Mom did have a large, horizontal file cabinet and it just had to be left behind for the estate sale because it was too big, too heavy to move, even empty. As it is, I will probably go vertical because of the foot print. The second apartment serves a lot as a library where files sit in the closets; height is not to be wasted. My main concern was .....are they really that expensive, over $100, these days? ______________________________________________________________________ ("My Lord, I am a stranger here. I was reading in the library when I heard her scream."––Kirk in a Cromwell era, (w,stte), ST:TOS, "All our yesterdays") |
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Well, I got the tallest, widest, deepest one I could get. It was on sale but normally, it was over two hundred bucks!
Bought it one day, it was delivered two days later. Since it was a tall one, I had whimiscial fantasy views of this: As If  " />
Of course, it wasn't. The delivery man was older, heavier, wider, a sterotypical family man who might coach little league. And there's no boy toy in that box! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ("........Unless there's something I've missed, Unless there's something I've missed, I'm acting as if......,"––lyrics, (w,stte), Sara Evans, "As If") |