Need Your Help - Paper Organization
I could use some good ideas here. I just started a new Messy Mom's class tonight and I've had several requests for help in the area of paper organization. This isn't an area where I have a lot of issues, so I'm not quite sure how to help them.
I do pretty well when it comes to weeding out the junk mail and keeping the bills and really important papers organized, but the rest of it, the paperwork from the school, and other odds and ends of info, I have a hard time with. I usually just keep them in a big basket or dump them into a file cabinet and then I just dig around in them periodically when I need something.
So give it up ladies - what are your great ideas for managing your papers?
4 comments:
I just bought a tiny, one drawer file cabinet for $20 from Target for putting all my papers in..it takes hanging files.
I need organizing tips though, I suck.
i have a THIS MONTH file...everything goes into that month. at the end of the month i decide what can go (into a more specific file) and what stays. at the end of the year i move everything into a this year folder...and throw away what i won't need. THEN once i have about 5 yrs worth of stuff i go through the oldest folder and purge. i ony keep a 2 drawer file cabinet. even running a business i have found i dont need more than that.
good luck!
Wow, I need to bookmark this post so I can come back and see what some more commenters have to say! I have a desk organizer on the counter in the kitchen next to where the kids come in the door from school. It catches a lot of coupons, but most importantly, one side of it is reserved for school stuff. Each kid has a folder of things that lay the groundwork for the year in their class, so I can refer back to it. Their teachers' names and voicemail #s are on the outside of the folders.
I have always hung the best of the kids' schoolwork on the "Wall of Fame" which is in a back hallway that goes downstairs. It is only for work that is their neatest, shows their best effort or best thinking. The rest we look over, and it goes into recycling when they're not looking. Ahem.
Action items go in a special place in the school slot, and sometimes even get laid on the counter so they won't be forgotten!
You stopped by for my SITS day at The Journey a while back, and I'm still wandering about returning the visits. All of the amazing blogs have been too interesting to hurry through, but I did want to say thanks!
My really important papers are taped to my basement door. (Like school schedules, practice schedules-- things I need to refer to a lot.) It's not especially attractive but it works for me :-)
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