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July 15, 2024
Six tips to read more books
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Learn moreDon’t let your desk and kitchen table be taken over by random papers. Learn how to manage all those receipts and bills by decluttering and downsizing.
Paper is always coming into our lives. Your mailbox is full of bills, local coupons, and junk mail encouraging you to sign up for a new credit card. If you receive any magazine or newspaper subscriptions, you have those taking up space in your home. Your children’s backpacks are full of homework and permission slips that land on a kitchen counter and never leave. And all that doesn’t include the paperwork you actually want and need. Finding a way to sort through paper clutter can feel like a weight off your shoulders.
Your first step is to sort through your existing papers and organize them into a few categories:
Functional paper refers to documents that you need because they serve a very specific purpose. This might include:
Sentimental papers are documents that you want to keep. They may invoke certain memories or feelings.
Documents that don’t explicitly fit into those categories can probably be thrown away. For instance, most appliances have user manuals online, so keeping the booklets of instructions is typically unnecessary. Your banks, credit cards, and utilities will keep statements online, so the paper copies of the bills may not be needed. However, this exercise is important to identify documents that you want to keep and need to keep.
Initially sorting through your paper clutter can be a freeing task, but it’s also important to take steps to reduce the incoming papers that can pile up around your home. Here are a few tips for organizing paper clutter at home:
One great way to manage and reduce your paper clutter is to start storing your documents digitally. If you’d rather not worry about a file cabinet or figuring out what to do with physical photographs, cloud storage might be for you.
Here’s how to start digitizing your paper clutter:
Storing photos online has grown in popularity in recent years. You no longer have to worry about finding physical storage solutions or worrying about damage. Scanning your photos to cloud storage can be a fun, nostalgic experience and can clear up paper clutter in your home. You can even create shared albums so that other family members and friends can view and upload photos.
Other documents that should be scanned and then shredded include:
If you prefer to keep hard copies of those documents, you can absolutely do so, just make sure you implement a system of keeping your papers organized.
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