I like to take the opportunity when some of the guys are out of town to go through and clean up my files, do some paper stack filing, and shred some backlog; it's amazing how much builds up over time!  On top of it, every April, I not only clean my home top to bottom but I clean my office up as well. 

On top of it all, I'm about to celebrate my one-year anniversary here at the Rain - and you all know what that means!  Yep, you got it: Epic File Cleanout.

Generally, after a year of employment at any place I've worked, I go back after a year and do a wellness checkup on my filing system.  Since I'm a "Clean-Up Girl" (meaning that I take on jobs that are particularly messy upon arrival), I tend to go through every bit of paper in the office and file it away in well-named files, even if I don't know precisely why the piece of paper exists or what purpose it serves for the office.  I've been known to label files with "No Idea" and "Potential Business Contacts" in preparedness for my CEO to say, "Hey, did you see that business card that was laying RIGHT HERE (*points to corner of desk*) when you got here?"

But, after a year, as you can imagine, some of those files haven't even been touched in that much time and are basically useless, never to be called on again.  And thus! My goal is to have my files cleaned out and shined up by May 5, 2009... I hereby challenge you all to go through your files and see if you have anything superfluous among them.  Shred, shred, shred, peeps!