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.
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
5 Organizing Myths
Organizing Your Life
1. Buying the supplies will get you organized - Don’t assume if buy organizing supplies such as containers, file folders, binders etc. you will be instantly more organized. To quote an old saying “You are putting the cart before the horse.” First rule of organizing is to go through the area you want to organize and get rid of the things you don’t need or want anymore. Once you do this you will know what organizing supplies you will need to purchase.
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Favorite Organizing Tools
Like any other job it easier to do if you have the right tools. Here are some favorites of mine and others I have come across in my travels:
Stackable bins – You can use these for toys, clothes, art-work, papers, school memos, shoes etc. You can buy them in different colors and color code them. A lot families use a certain color for each member of the family. They are cheap and plus you can stack them high and make use of vertical space.
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Paper Clutter Control — To Save or Not To Save Paper
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Paper Clutter Control!
Do you hate cleaning out your files? One of the most difficult things about purging files is that we have to make decisions about what to clean and what to throw out. For many people (no shock here), those decisions can be stressful, even on a good day. So file folders continue to bulge, and then we don’t even want to file current papers, which compounds the whole problem.
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