Eliminate Paper Clutter from Mail
Reducing Clutter
Here is a very easy method to use when sorting through your daily mail. This method comes from the book Organizing for Dummies by Eileen Roth and Elizabeth Miles. They call it R-A-P-I-D which stands for read, attend, pay, important and dump. Here is how you do it:
Read: Anything that you need to read goes in this stack. These are usually magazines, newsletters and catalogs you are actually interested in.
Attend: Notices and invitations for seminars, workshops, meetings, performances, parties and so on go in to attend stack.
Sugar Substitutes – New and Old
Safe Sugar Substitutes
Found this really good update on sugar substitutes in Parade Magazine. Here is a summary of the important information:
The old sugar substitutes are saccharin, aspartame, and sucralose. The Center for Science in the Public Interest – a health advocacy group- disagrees about saccharin and aspartame, citing studies that indicate those sweeteners increase the risk of cancers, and advises people to choose sucralose. The author of the article Joy Bauer (author of “Joy’s LIFE Diet:Four Steps to Thin Forever”) says she doesn’t think it matters which product you consume as long as you don’t consume more than two artificially sweetened items a day. Or she says you could stop using artificial sweeteners and use one of the natural sugar substitutes.
Reduce Paperwork
Organizing Your Life
Remember when we were going to have a paper-less society? Well, there is still a great deal of paper floating around and we still have to deal with it. I came across one organizing system called “Taming the Paper Tiger.” I think that what it was called. So here are some ways put your paper tiger on a diet and tame him too.
Reduce the amount of paper flowing into your home
- Stop junk mail from coming by writing to this address:
Mail Preference Service
Direct Marketing Association
P.O. Box 9008
Farmingdale, N.Y. 11735-900
