Office cubicles are generally kind of nasty. They’re usually dusty, often with scattered cobwebs, and the people that work in them pay little if any attention to them or their upkeep. While I was a cube ‘decorator’ type of person, I work with a lot of people who don’t care at all about the place they work. It’s a spot that serves a purpose, nothing more.

Cubicles tend to accumulate all manner of detritus.. awards, knickknacks, office party decorations, dishes from pot lucks.. it goes on. They’re equal parts workspace, garbage receptacle, and part office tech graveyard. You know those drawers in everyone’s kitchen that are stuffed full of shit that kind of doesn’t belong anywhere else? Cubicles are that at room-sized -scale.

One day I noticed a guy I worked with had turned his cubicle shelf into a graveyard for the many birthday cards he’d been given over the years….

I decided to try a little experiment