They say it's best to move every ten years or so in order to manage the clutter that builds over time. When you are in college, it seems like you are moving a lot. I certainly was, especially around the holidays.
At my college, we had to move out of the dorms and the sororities over the winter break. Friends with trucks and apartments with comfy couches were in high demand. I fondly remember a time when everything I owned fit in the back of my Subaru Forester 
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I recently had to move out of my cubical to make way for new carpet being installed in our office building. Turns out, the same principles apply at work when you move. I had only been occupying my space in the cube farm for four years but managed to fill half a shred bin of old files and stuff I kept just in case.
It felt marvelous re-organizing my paper clips and push pins, sorting them back out to their proper divided space in the top drawer tray. And even better, properly filing things I casually jammed into my bottom drawer (AKA "The Black Hole") when there just wasn't time to bother.
I love being organized.
For those of you preparing to move (yet again) in the next couple of weeks, I have one piece of advice for you: Get some Scotch tear by hand tape . It's amazing — so much easier than working the tape gun monster .
How about you? Are you required to move out over winter break?
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I love being organized, too...but I never quite manage it as well as I'd like to. Moving is my absolute LEAST favorite job of all time. But you are right; it does get you organized.
Angela from Aberdeen