Well readers I’m going to have to be honest – sometimes my filing system at home isn’t the best. I have one spot for definitely important correspondence and another for probably/maybe read again sometime if I ever think of it.
Over the years my “maybe” pile had grown and grown to the point of taking over a part of counter in my kitchen. This really didn’t bother me much but my PAs kept on insisting it was getting a tad unsightly and I should really decide if any of it was worth keeping.
Obviously readers, I generally have something better to do like singing silently to myself or trying to sleep in my wheelchair but yesterday I caved and said lets go do it in a truly perverse burst of enthusiasm.
Well as I had expected, it was mostly all well out of date and worthless.. Except it wasn’t. I came across a 75 euro voucher for Tesco. This was a great discovery. It was like I was an ancient explorer who had found a new Pharoah tomb in Egypt.
There were so many questions. People sometimes get me vodka but a Tesco voucher?
I don’t even go to Tesco. Was this some sort of sick, cruel joke?
Maybe I had spent most of it already and had left it there for safe keeping like an intelligent squirrel? My own kind of demented genius.
I put on my detective or let’s google hat. Did such a thing really exist?
Turns out it did. There was a number to ring but they wanted a PIN. There was none.
Being a terrible detective I went for the easy solution and sent my PA off to see if it was valid.
It was and it was worth 75 euro. I really must do more of this cleaning stuff.
After more rummaging I figured out it was from Bord Gais – did I tell everyone how they are my favourite electricity supplier, like ever??
So my pile is now much smaller, it just wouldn’t feel right to have nothing there at all.
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