Yeah, you read right.  I have three boxes on my desk.

I keep the usual In box (aka: I’ll-just-ignore-this-for-right-now-and-watch-cartoons-on-tv box) and Out box (aka: I’m-so-happy-this-is-done-so-I-can-watch-cartoons-on-tv box) but alongside those two I make sure to keep a box full of scratch paper.  I never print on this paper but throughout the day I find myself needing blank paper to write contact information on, dimensions, and take-out orders and rather than grab a fresh piece of paper out of the carton below the printer I make sure to reach for the scratch paper and after I’ve used it for the day if it isn’t filled to capacity with doodles and my own sophomoric musings then I put it back in the box.

I am considering another box for my desk to put the used scratch paper in and sealing it in a time capsule so that two thousand years from now when California has been converted to a desert wasteland or an inland sea by global warming archaeologists will discover it and I will finally be famous.