Tackling the Stacks…..of papers

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Well you have to be one of two types of people. You’re either that person who is completely organized, recycles their mail as it comes in, files everything else right away and knows right where everything is when needed……or you’re not. I’m not, unfortunately, but have decided that I am going to tackle my stacks and become that person, I hope.

I tend to bring the mail in, put it in the mail pile. A week or two later I go through it and separate in to the next piles of now and later. My later pile then moves elsewhere and I forget it. Eventually I either go through it or I throw it in the box that I’m planning to go through. Terrible, I know. Not sure why I don’t just do it and get it over with. Well today I decided to deal with it. I have tackled the pile and the box!

Now, my box of papers is not just mail. The box includes all of the art projects, worksheets, school newsletters and magazines that come home daily. So this is my plan:

• Bring the mail in and go through it right away.
• Mail dispersed immediately to where it belongs, husband, office, etc…
• Deal with what’s left for myself immediately. Pay, file, recycle.
• Kids work will go into a box which I will go through at end of school year.
• I will then sort this into work and projects that I want to keep. This work will go into a box that I plan to keep.
• Everything else goes! You cant keep every worksheet they bring home!
• I will then start a box for the next school year and repeat this process.
•  By the time they graduate there will be only one box of saved things for them to have.

I realize this  sounds like a minor problem that should not be an issue, but I can’t be the only person that can’t seem to get with it. There is so much junk mail, so many worksheets, so much stuff I just don’t need!  Join me in decluttering your life one pile at a time. Good luck!