I have wanted a filing cabinet for some time now. I believe it will help me be more organised. I also want some normal drawers to put stuff in. I described this problem a while ago. My ideal filing cabinet arrived today. A big lorry pulled up outside the house. I could hear it. Then the man knocked on the door, and gave me an important document to sign. I signed it and wrote my name on it as requested by the man. He went to the lorry and fetched a big box. I told him to put it in the living room. It looked heavy.

“Is it heavy?” I asked.

“Yes,” he puffed.

He left it in the living room as requested and got his piece of paper back, tore the carbon copy of it off for me, got his pen and went back to his lorry. Then the lorry drove away. I looked at the box. It was big. The man was also not wrong when he said it was heavy: it was heavy; he was right. I decided to leave it where it was until Colin got back from work.

When Colin got back from work, we assembled the filing cabinet. It took ages. Finally, it was constructed, and we took it up the stairs, where I fitted the drawers. They’re ever so slightly wonky. They open and close though, with only a little effort required, so I don’t think that’s a bad result from a flat-pack. I now have a fully-functional filing cabinet with two normal drawers and two filing drawers.

I got lots of filing cabinet fily things on Saturday from Ryman’s to put in it, so now all I need to do is put stuff in them. I have just filled one ordinary drawer with paper and envelopes and record cards (they’re mainly Colin’s, I think) and those plastic things you put in ring binders for handouts and printouts when you haven’t got a hole punch. In another drawer is going to go all the stuff (or at least some of the stuff) that’s in the under-shelf shelf under the monitor, which is on a shelf thing on the desk. Then I can either a) find somewhere else to put the under-shelf shelf or put other stuff in the under-shelf shelf. I haven’t decided which, yet. It depends on whether I can find anywhere else for the under-shelf shelf to go or not. I shall put papers and things in the filing drawers. They are all currently in in-trays and magazine racks on the shelf. I had to put books and other things in them because they started bending. Now, they will hang and gravity will keep them straight. Or at least they will when I’ve moved them.

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categories: Life and Stuff
tags: buying things, Colin, organisation
series: Filing cabinet