Where to begin...Spring Cleaning!
Posted 04-26-2009 at 04:51 PM by Robin
For those of you who live in the rural areas of the US, you can sympathize with me living in a ranch-style house. For many years we lived in a two bedroom, one bath (with Pepto Bismol pink bath tub and tile - this really dates our house) with a one-car attached garage. So, a couple years ago we built a new garage and then the next year, extended our house. This was a GODsend for us and now we have a normal-size three bedroom, two bath home. Everything is tidy and has it's place....BUT, my office. For some reason our now college-aged son thinks what ever he doesn't want anymore, he just piles in my office. Along with any boxes, donations to Freecyclers, etc. are just dropped in the office! Along with all my books and scrap booking items. BTW, I forgot to mention one book case is now gone. Our son sold it on Craigslist with a desk and his bed that all matched the book case. So, where did the stuff go that was on the book case? You guessed it!So, I've resolved to get this room organized and have a clean floor! I'm working in-house training a new staff person M thru W next week and probably the week after. The problem is, that Dh is off the rest of the days and will need my help. BUT, I will get this room finished.
Wish me LUCK!
I've decided that I will be donating books and items we no longer need or have kept for whatever reason.One question I do have is - I have documents, forms, idea books, etc. for my "field" and they need to be stored. I do have a large media storage device and was wondering if you all store items like this on yours, or in files or binders? Honestly, this storage is taking up two file boxes alone. Yet, with a flat bed scanner, this will take some time to get everything scanned.
I'm a perfectionist and have realized this over many years. Everything must have it's place and I know this is one reason this project has taken a back burner with no placer for most of these items to go (yet now they will be donated - and what a wonderful feeling that is).
Anyone have any organizational ideas or suggestions?
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Donating to a good cause is a good way to get rid of excess clutter. I generally get rid of anything I haven't used within at least six months. And sometimes you have to be quite brutal on yourself... I'm a particular hoarder ~just quietly~ of clothing I am going to fit one day. Awful... anyway my wardrobe is a whole different story.
Back to that organization tip I was getting to... I have boxes instead of folders, files and what not - just boxes. They're labelled by purpose and the beneath that label they are marked "Current Financial Year" or "Previous Financial Year". Because I file stuff in the order I receive it, it's always in date order. In the new year I move everything from the current into the previous and move the previous into an archive box for that subject. Depending on how long the information is required (i.e. for tax reporting) you can then keep or discard from the archives boxes annually or biannually depending on what suits. It's simple but effective and there's nothing stopping you from having the current financial years documents as folders and the previous years as boxes, it's completely up to you. Anyhoo that's a very simple system that I have found works well for me. I look forward to hearing what others do too! |
 
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