organize and file or throw away all paper

OK, now we REALLY need to do this because my W-2s got lost somewhere in that stack. Gonna have to get to it if we plan to get our taxes done on time.

My husband had to have some paperwork done for taxes/loans, so he pulled out quite a bit of paper – receipts, statements, etc. A lot of it’s still lying around, but some is filed, and we threw out a lot. I went through some old magazines and notebooks the other day, saving things I wanted and tossing the rest. I really gotta get serious about this though.

I was a bad enough clutterbug, but now I’m married to an even bigger one. He had some friends over last night, and I decided to go through a box of catalogs, magazines, etc. (both mine and his) that was sitting in the way of an end table I wanted to move. I went through this box and found parts catalogs and farm magazines from 2004-2006. I will admit that there were some Horse & Rider magazines in there too, but I at least save them to use the pictures for artistic references. That’s another project I must do – go through my magazines and cut out the pictures I’m actually intending to use and throw out the rest. Anyway, I got through the whole box, and there’s now a small stack of useful papers waiting to be filed and nearly a whole box full of junk waiting to be burned. One less box I have to worry about when we move next month.