bibliophile packrat moving

[mbumby]

At work, many of my coworkers are moving from one space -- some to empty cubes in my current office, some spread around in other offices. The space they moved out of will be remodeled, and I (along with several others) will be moving (back) into it. I don't have a move date yet, but I have a ton of stuff, so I'm getting started packing up. I've

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[jss1113]

Would any of this be of interest to the folks at Bentley?

[mbumby]

That's a great idea, and I wish so, but I somehow doubt it. Aren't they mostly concerned with items that document the university, the buildings, the teachers, the students? I don't think they'd really care about old Banyan Vines manuals or old RAMIS books or old SAS documentation. Or the "benefits" of the reorg-du-jour.

[jss1113]

The "'benefits' of the reorg-du-jour" might qualify for University history, but I take your point.

[joecoustic]

I really understand the difficulties here! I only am not totally crammed into my condo by this time in my life is due to so many moves and culling a touch every time. Averaging a move every couple of years has been good for something :).

[mbumby]

I never managed to leave anything behind any time I moved -- intentionally, that is. At one point, my staff was assumed to be trash by the person helping me, and it was left in the moving truck, and by the time I went back to the place we'd borrowed the truck from, it had been disposed of. More likely I am to absorb things that previous tenants left behind.

[isherempress]

Be careful, sweetheart, or someone will make a TV program about you... Hoarders 'R Us or some such thing. xoxo

[mbumby]

Chuckle. I may be extreme, but I don't think I'm superlatively extreme ... yet. Maybe I need to get worse so they'll pay me money to put me on the screen AND do my work for me...

My mother was a depression era baby, and I am surely my mother's daughter.