by Denise David Baer Like many small business owners, we have several cardboard file boxes that we use to stash old paperwork. In addition to boxes of tax records that we can't toss out for umpteen years in case of an IRS audit and documentation from really important jobs, we have one particular box that holds the records of our "job from hell." The box weighs 65 pounds (no joke), and that doesn't include oversized drawings and photos. Years from now, someone with a head for numbers and time to spare could piece together the entire ordeal by going through the thousands of pieces of paper in that box. But the contents wouldn't begin to tell the
