Organize my papers

Ok, so I finally stopped thinking about it and just started doing it. I went through the entire house and gathered every pile of papers I could find, and started ruthlessly going through them. It’s amazing the crap I was holding onto – why! I managed to fill up 3 kitchen trash bags full of papers, which will be burned in the morning, and have decreased the stacks and stacks of papers quite impressively for day 1. I should be finished with this goal in a day or two!

I’ve been meaning to do this for the longest time! I have papers in boxes in the basement, papers in drawers, papers in cupboards, papers in night stands, papers on the tables, papers falling out of the totally disorganized file cabinet – aagghhh! I can never FIND anything!!

So, I’ll probably be starting on this today. My first task will be to grab a HUGE box and go through the entire house, room by room, and put every single scrap of paper I find into this box. (At least that way, before they’re organized, I’ll know where everything is – in the box). Then I’ll work on sorting them all.

I have actually thought about this one..I’ve gone out and bought a file and some divider to do this… so I just actually need to get it done. Hopefully this will mean I’ll be able to find that important letter when I need it :D

Started doing this yesterday, and I plan on doing even more tonight.

I am a bit glad for my boy-related crying spell, because I get energy afterwards, and I can use it to take care of my papers and feel better about taking care of myself and not procrastinating more.

Yes, I AM getting back to being responsible, even though divorce and life upheaval mayhem turned me every which way for so long!

this will be quite the task, as I have kept my papers organized for well over a year and have verrrrry limited storage space.

My plan is to get out all papers I can find (they’re located in various drawers, piles, and an old box of hanging folders up on a high shelf, and separate things out tomorrow. Then I’ll go out either tomorrow or Sunday and buy whatever type of container/folders makes the most sense to finish the project.

I can never find important papers and am constantly losing things, so this will be a huge improvement.

After decades of collection, I have begun to realize that I most likely will not read scrap I possess, and so the first part of my organization is consolidation. Thus, the purging. Every piece that leaves is one less piece I have to place.

I am a pack rat. Keeping clutter wherever I go. I try to be organized—buying file folders and cabinets, and so on…but I never seem to use them after 1 week. And there are papers EVERYWHERE from who knows how many years. And I just need to reorganize myself. One free day to get everything in order. I need help on how to do this.

I’m such a MESS! I started reading organization books and online articles in order to get some help… I have improved but I’m still a big mess.

I still have a LOT of work to do…

for the weekend only. So now I only have 2 days to clear the mess here before I leave again for a couple of months. This is the last chance to get an overview over my financials and other things I need to do.

A new office, so this time I will make it right. I start off basically without any paper and I will try to keep it that way. I never look at it anyway, they just clutter the office. If there is paper I really can’t replace, I will file it immediately… and always clean my desk before I leave work.