New Years Day. A day I typically stay in. I like doing my spring cleaning (if you want to call it that) on 1/1. I backed up my personal documents to a DVD that I will store away for safe keeping. I also backed up my email from my mail server.
I know very geeky but I find that the new year is a perfect time to back stuff up and clean up the clutter. I got rid of a ton crap today and organized a closet. I also finally went back and shredded about 8 years worth of old receipts I had in a huge folder. I stopped keeping paper receipts a while a go since I have good electronic records of stuff. The only problem was I had 8 years worth of built up paper that I didn’t want to just throw out since they had lots of personal data on them. I recently got a good paper shredder so I took my cleaning day to spend about an hour (that is all it took) to shred all the receipts. The one big folder turned into 2 garbage bags of confetti. I love the shredder I have. It does a cross-weave so the paper is totally useless to anyone going through garbage.
So todays work isn’t so glamorous but it is something that I know I always need to do. I still have some other clean up tasks to complete around my apartment. I will hopefully tackle them over the weekend. The email backups are taking a lot longer than I thought so that is still ongoing. I think I am about 75% done (I hope).