Getting Out of the Mess After Retiring from the Job

I have just retired from the government service after working with the Department of Education (DepEd) for 25 years. I have come home with the great "rubbish" from my latest school assignment. They content bulk of my personal documents, manuals, references, office orders, among others. It is impractical or improper for me to leave there in school for nobody could benefit or make use of them.

I took two to three days to make them place to their rightful place. I segregate those documents for proper disposal for reuse and for shredding or burning. I keep the manuals and references for donation to the public library or to be given to my co-school head who doesn't have that ready references. Of course, I keep my personal appointment, service records, certificates of awards and recognition.

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I have a mini library at home. I want to get rid some of those books which have been published more than 10 years and teaching manuals and textbooks which I have used when I was teaching before as a classroom teacher. Periodicals and old newspapers and magazines. There are also pocket books, novels, and do-it manuals.

I pack those books and donate to our city library. Those old magazines, newspapers and periodicals are weighed and sold to the buy-and-sell business venture and use the money to repaint my mini library wall. By the way, the pocket books and novels are given to my close relatives especially those who love reading them and who are still studying in college. They are so grateful receiving them.

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