After you finish your taxes, use this time to get back to daily paper management.
When you get the mail, sort it the same day into different categories, such as trash, mail for yourself, mail for your spouse, and mail for each of your children. Trash should immediately go into the garbage or recycle bin. Bills should go to whoever pays them. Each category should go into a mail slot (a paper tray, cubby hole, file, etc.), and each person in the family should be made responsible for clearing out his/her slot on a daily basis.
Posted by: Tamara Meyer in organizing families on
Mar 20, 2009
"When you do not honor and respect what you own, the lesson you are teaching your children is that they can own whatever they want, but they don't have to be responsible for what they own." - Peter Walsh on the Oprah Winfrey show, Wednesday 3/18/09
I respect Peter Walsh for many reasons, but the thing that really excites me is when he spreads the word that it is "not about the stuff." It is never about the "stuff", but more how the "stuff" affects our lives. I am so glad that the millions of Oprah viewers are hearing that message. It helps raise awareness about the organizing profession and the role professional organizers play in affecting the lives of others. I get goosebumps just thinking about it.
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