Half of South Florida works from home now, and most of us work from a spare bedroom that never got promoted. The desk is there. The chair is there. So are four years of papers, a drawer of mystery cables and a closet of retired electronics. Here's the professional reset.
Paper: Three Piles, One Hour
Keep (taxes, contracts, records — one labeled box per year), shred (anything with account numbers you don't need), gone (everything else, which is most of it). The shred pile gets consolidated into boxes for a five-minute drop at any shredding service — don't buy a home shredder for a decade of backlog.
Electronics: The Museum Closes Today
Dead laptops, old routers, printers that jam, phones from three upgrades ago — all of it is e-waste, none of it is coming back to life. Pull the hard drives from anything that stored your data (or set drive machines aside for wiping), and the rest goes to electronics recycling.
The Desk Zones
- Arm's reach: only what you touch daily — computer, notebook, one pen cup
- Within sight: active-project files and reference
- Out of the way: archive boxes, supplies inventory, the label maker
- Cables: labeled at both ends, contained, one drawer maximum
Or Book the Crew
A Sort Squad two-person crew runs the whole triage with you in one session — paper verdicts yours, lifting and hauling ours, e-waste recycled, supplies zoned. Home office sessions are booked by request. Request yours.
About Sort Squad: garage cleaning and organization — two pros, one truck, two hours, $699 flat, everywhere in South Florida. Doors up. Junk gone. Book online here.