The company I work for rebranded last year, with a new logo and updated website. We got fresh mousepads and email signatures. It was all very exciting.The day the new website went live, a stack of shiny blue pocket folders was placed in the break room, free for any takers. The company could no longer use them because they had the old logo on them. I love(/hoard) free things -- I took six of them. I brought 5 home to be put aside for personal use (read: to not be used at all ever) and kept one to put my "homework" in.This "homework" folder -- after a few years of hauling paperwork to and fro(m) the office, sometimes in the rain -- has become shoddy*. It's pimpled and rumpled (rimpled?) and looks now like some neglected night sky.Backside, detailThe front is crosshatched with the scars of scores of tiny X's that marked a hundred items off a dozen to-do lists. The fold is ripped almost completely up the side. At some point it will cease to be a pocket folder and become merely a paperwork sandwich.I have 5 crisp, non-shoddy** versions of the same folder. Why am I using the shoddy*** one?This old old folder is going in the bin, and a matching new old folder will take its place, to hold important documents such as these:Febby, the Spokes-weasel of Teleworking*I wanted to use the word "shitty," but my family reads this.**Non-shitty***Shitty

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