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The following post is from Becky of Organizing Made Fun:
source: Organizing Made Fun
My two kids started school a couple of weeks ago! It’s exciting to start a new school year but with it comes a LOT of school papers. Over the years I’ve worked on ways to overcome this source of “evil” in my home. Organizing the important papers and throwing out the not-so-important papers is what keeps me sane.
First, comes all kinds of papers from teachers for parents to sign and hang on to. Then, comes the endless amounts of teacher expectation papers (this is mostly for my son, who’s in middle school with multiple teachers).
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by Mandi on August 24, 2012
Today’s Day 5 of the Simplify for Fall Challenge, and we’re tackling paper clutter and budgets!
We have a busy day today, and I won’t be home. Thankfully, I’m ahead on today’s challenge (woohoo, for once this week!), but I’m still sharing tips and further reading to help you work through these areas:
File Systems
Honestly, we don’t deal with a lot of paper clutter (unless you count the craft variety!). We get online versions of most of our bills and don’t need to keep too many receipts (although I’m still not very good at scanning the ones we do need to keep, so I have a file of those), so one little file cabinet holds all of my files, and it’s not too difficult to stay on top of filing.
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