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Post by lostchild on Nov 6, 2014 22:45:45 GMT -5
My paperwork squalor started a few years ago when child was throwing a tantrum and upended all of household papers into one big mess...since then I have never been that organized but I would like to be...that is my goal to get completely reorganized paperwork wise.
I had one file cabinet for entire family sorted out...next big goal will be getting a new filing cabinet since papers are in file boxes. That will depend on me getting job I applied for. Looking forward to hearing something in next couple of days.
Still feeling good as I sorted and shredded for 40 minutes and got all papers sorted and in a drawer. It was all son's paperwork.
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Post by jendela on Nov 7, 2014 0:51:19 GMT -5
Hi Louie, lostchild, papermoon and grasshopper - well done on all of your paperwork, sorting and shredding over the last few weeks. Now I have gotten my dishes and laundry more under control, I want to start on my piles and boxes of papers. I have made a start today by sorting through some old newspapers and magazines, with a bundle ready to go into the recycle bin.
I plan to start with the easy stuff, and hopefully that will give me the impetus to start sorting through other more emotionally charged papers. To make things worse I have boxes of papers mixed with other belongings in a very random fashion, all just bundled in together, usually when cleaning up the house for some (forgotten) reason, then never making time to go back and sort through it......
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Post by Louie on Nov 7, 2014 3:14:21 GMT -5
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Post by Louie on Nov 8, 2014 11:40:04 GMT -5
up early, can't sleep as it's very hot here. I've been working on the last of the filing cabinets and have the top two drawers completely empty now. If I could put in a solid days work today I think I could sort through the next two drawers and then I am almost done! [/img] sort through client files - keep or shred depending on dateshredding - make up new files and label start a tax file for current tax year reduce paper files to one three drawer filing cabinet[/img] [/img]
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Post by Louie on Nov 8, 2014 18:11:22 GMT -5
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Post by papermoon on Nov 8, 2014 18:25:40 GMT -5
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Post by jendela on Nov 8, 2014 19:12:29 GMT -5
Hi Louie, I'm heading off for another outside commitment today, but before I go just wanted to say congratulations on a fantastic effort. You are an inspiration to me. I hope to be able to follow your example.
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Post by Louie on Nov 8, 2014 19:42:41 GMT -5
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Post by hollyhock on Nov 8, 2014 22:10:55 GMT -5
Congratulations Louie. What wonderful news! It just goes to prove that slow and steady wins the race. I hope you treated yourself!!!!
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Post by Louie on Nov 8, 2014 23:20:40 GMT -5
thankyou hollyhock I did have a nice treat co-incidentaly, I've just come back from having lunch with two lovely work colleagues so it was a nice way to finish off the day. and yes, slow and steady is the trick I think for me..
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Post by lostchild on Nov 9, 2014 3:28:08 GMT -5
Terrific job Louie!!! Persistence is all.
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Post by papermoon on Nov 11, 2014 5:01:05 GMT -5
Today I focused on putting just one file in order... I picked my phone bills, thinking that would be easy. I got through the past 6 years, but there are several months missing. I'll need them for my delinquent tax returns. Hmm, they might be in three other possible places. Mercifully the timer rang (36 minutes for today) before I started to freak out about it. I still have to go back 6 more years, all the way to 2003 for taxes. Sigh. But at least I got some organizing done today. And some shredding, too.
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Post by papermoon on Nov 12, 2014 2:32:17 GMT -5
Another 36 minutes today working on the phone files. I located a bunch of missing months down in the basement boxes (and got a scary sneak preview of the other horrors therein). Also found the files back through 2003 in the file cabinet (duh). However, the months and years are jumbled out of sequence, so I'm not sure everything is complete.
Tomorrow is another day.
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Post by Louie on Nov 12, 2014 3:58:03 GMT -5
thanks lostchild- yes slow and steady wins the race! I have processed my mail, tossed out two catalogues. I'm started working out my finances in a lot more detail and redoing my budget. Now that I can find old bills it is much easier to work out what I'm spending.
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Post by Louie on Nov 13, 2014 13:36:35 GMT -5
Processed yesterdays mail - 8 letters, sorted, filed and trashed. 2 parcels put away and packaging tossed out.
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