Some sense of organization is finally returning to our lives. When we moved from Myrtle Beach in 2020, we simply couldn’t bring everything with us. One such casualty that didn’t make the trip across the country was our filing cabinet. It was clunky and, to be honest, it had seen better days.

Well, we have definitely missed it over the past four years. I adopted the “put everything in random pocket folders” method. Want to guess how that worked out? There was never a central spot for these folders as they ended up in drawers and baskets throughout the house. Storing birth certificates in one folder under the bed upstairs and passports in a folder in the corner of my office downstairs just didn’t make a lot of sense.

For the past few months, Sidney and I have been very cognizant about the fact that we needed to do something about our disorganization. We looked at a couple places and kept our eyes opened at a large garage sale but didn’t find anything to our liking…until a few weeks ago.

I didn’t include this in my Father’s Day gift post, but the project Sid recently completed was the most thoughtful thing anyone has ever done for me to commemorate the special day. About a week before June 16, Sidney found a couple filing cabinets at Value Village. They were second-hand and in pretty bad shape, at least externally. After much debate on whether she wanted to buy them or just give up on the filing cabinet search, she chose the former.

Sidney did a really special think for Father’s Day by restoring these two filing cabinets.

When Sidney arrived home, she cleared our cars out of the garage and started the project. Over the course of several days, she sanded the cabinets, primed them, and painted them. I am kicking myself that I didn’t snap a “before” photo but if you can imagine the brown faded wood look you have a pretty good idea of what she was dealing with.

Last Tuesday she brought the finished products into our home. We have them both inside my office sandwiching my desk. The process of filling the cabinets up with contents from the folders is ongoing. Much gratitude to my wife for using her creativity and love to solve for a problem that I let fester for too long. Don’t Blink.