There’s a pattern with the messiness factor of my desk. By default, it’s generally super messy. Until I need to find something on it. Then I sift through everything looking for that something. Then I get frustrated, and stress-crying ensues. Then I decide to clean it. Then it gets messy again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I’m at the frustrated, stress-crying level right now. There’s a bunch of tax info buried in the piles, and I really want to get my taxes done and over with as soon as humanly possible. So hopefully I’ll clean the desk off in the very near future – at least to a manageable point – and find everything I need.
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No never clean your desk. You will never find anything again.
Ha ha. Well, I’m pretty proud of myself for managing to keep my desk (mostly) clean since I cleaned it. It does make me feel a little less chaotic.
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