organize my files

This goal relates directly to my computer files. They are so messy even though I try to keep them really neat. I really need to fix that then do a backup and probably reinstall my computer – Baby is a bit ill.

And then promptly forgot about it. :) I didn’t manage the full-on organizational onslaught that I’d imagined (color-coordinated expanding file folders with neatly printed tabs), but the files are sorted and neatly filed away.

So I’ve not been completely unproductive.

Every few years I have to go through this again, cleaning out the old stuff and reorganizing the current stuff. Right now everything is crammed in the filing cabinet so it is out of the way, but it’s not easy to find things. Another boring winter project.

to pick up expanding file folders at Wal-Mart. If they sell them, they keep ‘em well hidden. Oh, well…I need to go to Office Depot anyway.

that my filing system isn’t working. It’s an ordeal to archive my files from one year to the next, my “to-file” folder is surpassed in girth only by my “medical” folder (too general, I know now), and I can’t find anything as quickly as I’d like. There’s a rough order, yes, and it’s all there, but I think there’s a better way.

I’m going to get expanding file folders, one for each year, and organize the year’s paperwork in them. When the year is done, I simply pull the expanding file out of my filing cabinet and start a new one. After seven years, I shred everything in the file – no sorting required.

I just need to get the expanding files.

I am finding that sorting my papers and organizing my files has gone hand-in-hand with my memoir writing project. I really needed material organized so I could put my hands on it as needed.

Well, I got a good start this year by cleaning out my old rusted file cabinet of all its junk, and bought a new file cabinet. I tossed so much that I burnt out my shredder. So, now I have a box full of paper to be shredded, a box of papers to be filed, and my new file cabinet still in its box in the garage.

The files are organized!!! Woo-Hoo!!! Now if I could only get the rest of my apartment that way…

Trying to reduce paper clutter and be able to find things when I need them. I’m tired of the clutter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ahh…so nice to have all my paperwork organized in one little folding file. My whole life is in there; I only need to protect it instead of boxes and boxes of papers which are now in the process of being recycled.