7 Ways to GET IT TOGETHER: Paste Cleans the Office
Photos by PasteRecently here at Paste’s Atlanta office we geared up for summer cleaning after being inspired by this website. During our day of blood, sweat and dust, we compiled some tips on how to make your next cleaning mission as efficient and pain-free as possible.
1. Assemble an Army
The interns, sorting away
Taking on a cleaning job (especially a colossal one) is not fun. But it’s a lot more tolerable and faster if you create a cleaning task force. Whether it’s you and your roommates or a friend you’ve goaded into helping you because they owe you, working as a group will cut clean-up time in half: firstly, you’ll be able to split of sections of the clutter to tackle to messes at once. Secondly, you’ll have eyes on you, preventing a bout of procrastination to strike.
2. Ditch The Old Electronics
Relics of the early 2000’s
That light blue ‘98 Macintosh G3 that’s completely broken but you’re totally going to put on display someday? Yeah, you’re not. Unless you have a penchant for fixing up old electronics, dusty relics of tech past are best left either sold or recycled, not stored in the back of your closet. If the gadgets are still functioning or have collector’s value, sell them on Ebay on craigslist. If they’re just garbage in metallic form find a place to dispose of them properly (list of EPA-approved sites here.)
3. Kill Your Darlings (or rather, Extract the Unused)
Here at Paste, we receives dozens of CDs, Books, and DVDs a week. Paste has been around since 2002. You do the math. While we didn’t have to go through eons of promo material, we did go through probably a year or two worth of old stuff that was taking up a significant amount of space. We pulled out what we wanted to keep, and set the rest out for donation or recycling. It can be arduous and painful parting ways with books and shows, but you are lying to yourself if you think that that book your weird neighbor gave you about the making of Braveheart is ever going to get opened. Find recycling centers here.
4. Same Applies for Magazines