Paper Organization |
By Dave Ulacia
If you’re like the rest of us, your goal to get organized in 2010 includes tackling mounds of paper. Paper seems to be one of the biggest sources of clutter all of us deal with. So how do you reduce and manage the paper that comes into your home or office? Here are a few suggestions.
Receipts - everyone has them, but nobody wants them. As with most things organizing-related, most of us are never really taught what to do with those pesky slips of paper, so they tend to get pretty messy and out of control. Here are a few ideas for how to deal with receipts:
Don’t take them.
By Alicia Rockmore and Sarah Welch
Do you have a sense of dread when you open your mailbox? Not just because of bills, but also because of everything else that’s in there with the bills? Mail is like a weed: If you don’t keep it in check, it will spread out and eventually take over any and all empty tables, countertops, and chairs you’ve got. The consequences can be more than just clutter, too.
Being a Certified Professional Organizer, I actually enjoy working with paper – I know, I’m strange! Even so, I don’t want to spend too much time on it; like you, I have many other tasks on my to-do list. One of my big goals for 2009 is to reduce the amount of paper that I have to process. Here are a few ways to do it:
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