It’s been a year since I last sheveled so it’s time for my 2024 National Clean Off Your Desk Day sheveling.
Along with the typical dust, receipts, and miscellaneous bits of paper and trash, I found things such as:
- An empty box of See’s assorted chocolates
- 1.5 bags of Ginger Chews (original)
- Half full box of “Megamix” Mike and Ike candies
- One-third of a large Toblerone
- Yellow paper crown
- Thirteen guitar picks
- Tin of Trader Joe’s Organic Pastilles Gingermints
- Cheap combination lock
- Four juggling bags
- Doctor Who hat (with white pompom)
- Tangram set missing one piece
- Name tag
- Six chip bag clips
- Two sets of flashcards (Korean)
- Rubber locust
- Assorted paperclips
- Whistle keychain
- Seven expired credit and insurance cards
- Someone else’s keys (that needed to be returned)
- Program from the Westview performance of “School House Rock Live! JR.”
- Rubber light-up flower ring
- Mask (lower face, not my “Man in Black” mask)
- Two bank statements (now shredded)
- Ghibli-themed Reversi game
- Luggage label
- Effective Java: Third Edition
- Program from “Westview Band and Choir Present…Sleigh Ride Songs & Deserts”
- Five snowflake multitools
- Receipt for my Zamberlan Anabasis Mid GTX Hiking Boots
- Goodwill tax receipt
- Notes from a meeting and various numbers/timings as I was measuring performance of a data import task
- Program from the Westview Choir 2023 Awards Concert
- Hand-doodled diagrams for an eventing architecture
- ESP8266 with attached submersible thermometer
- Kermit the Frog water bottle
- Old wallet
- COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card (card was in the same place from when I last sheveled)
- 75 cents in change
- Yo-yo string
- Empty Altoids tin (amazingly only one)
- Garage door open (was actually expecting to find two–not sure where the other one is…)
- Bookmark
- Pointy bit for electronics screwdriver set (since returned to case with other bits)
- Dice set (including the D10 that I couldn’t find when I last sheveled)
Apparently it’s been six years to the day since I first recognized “National Clean Off Your Desk Day” with My Sheveled Desk. And of course, like every time before, now my office is in dire need of tidying . . .
