chester1955 What I KNOW about me is more important than what you think about me.

Break the habit of throwing my mail and documents in huge piles (read all 4 entries…)
It all fell down over Christmas

It had to happen. Things get busy and you look at an envelope and know it’s just the bank statement so you don’t deal with it and before you know it something else is put on top of it and then… we are back to square one.
What can I say? I’m human.
In Feb the Beautiful T goes to Bali. I have been trying to de-clutter the study for 2 years. Really the only way to do this is to pull everything out of it and drop it in the loungeroom, go through it piece by piece and find a home for things or throw them out. Unfortunately this would freak the Beautiful T right out, so that is why I am waiting until they go away in Feb. The day they leave I am going to pull the study apart, deal with all the filing and set up a new study.
I have two weeks to do this and I will make sure my mail is put into the filing cabinets in future.
Well, I will try.

Jan 10, 2012, 05:16PM PST


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Dreamdancer12 Rediscovering the joys of being well rested

I used to do this too...

My current compromise is to have one single beautiful basket where I place my mail and random papers when they first come in the door. Filing this right away is too time consuming and overwhelming for me, since it’s a constant inflow. The basket is a gracious grace period, a middle zone in between the daily influx and the 2x/month sorting and filing.

Seems to work for now :)

Jan 10, 2012, 09:43PM PST | Parent | Respond to this 1 cheer

Ever mindful Becoming the best ME possible

good idea

I like the idea of a middle zone. I am going to try to incorporate this. It would have to be better than papers strewn across the counter.

Jan 11, 2012, 01:18PM PST | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

Dreamdancer12 Rediscovering the joys of being well rested

Exactly

That’s exactly it Steph. Intention and sense of order rather than overt cluttery chaos :)

P.S. You can often find really cool really cheap baskets at GoodWill or some place like that…

Jan 11, 2012, 10:42PM PST | Respond to this


 

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