By Stephanie Vozza

If you have kids in school, you know that the amount of paper that comes home can be overwhelming.  Permission slips. Lunch menus. Project guidelines. Sports schedules.  Rubrics.  PTA notes. Fundraising forms. The list goes on and on.

They key to staying on top of all of the paper is to create a good flow. Here’s how it works in our house:

By Alicia Rockmore and Sarah Welch

Pick up the latest copy of a hot shelter magazine and you’ll find glossy photos capturing sleek images of perfect homes and offices. It’s so alluring, but honestly, where is all of the stuff? Do these people live real lives?

by Joshua Zerkel

We’ve got a way to go to reach the paperless future shown in The Jetsons and Star Trek. During the course of daily life, many of us are faced with a deluge of paper, all of which needs to be dealt with in some way. Many people I’ve worked with are drowning in stacks, piles, and desks full of paper, and want to gain control over the paper in their lives. If this rings true with you, read on for some tips on how to begin to turn off the “paper faucet.”

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.

By Joshua Zerkel

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 Joshua Zerkel

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.

By Joshua Zerkel

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: