Files In, Files Out

I spent a lot of the day going through my file cabinet and getting rid of old papers. It's amazing how much I hung onto that I never actually needed. I wonder what the percentage of papers are that I access on a regular basis. I suspect its a fraction of what was there. My only hope to keep them from piling up again will be to get good at assessing what is useful the moment I look at it. All this time I thought I was being diligent by saving papers that had important information on them. It turns out, the information is only important while you are reading it. After that, you can let it go.