Diminish the Paper Pile

The kids bring armfuls of paper home from school and church. Mail arrives daily. We take notes on scrap pieces of paper.

It doesn’t matter how hard we try, there seems to be a continuous flow of paper entering our homes.

We may not be able to stop it completely, but we can certainly create processes to deal with it! So, how about we do just that? Let’s take a few minutes to deal with all the paper cluttering up our homes!

Purge that Paper

Set your timer for 5-15 minutes and do one (or all) of the following:

• 1. Trash junk mail.
  2. Open bills, trash the envelopes and send off payment.
  3. Collect all of your random notes and compile them into one list. Trash the rest.
  4. If you need to keep receipts, put them where they belong. If not, get rid of them.
  5. File paper you need to keep.
  6. Scan the paper you need to keep electronically and then get rid of the hard copy.
  7. Go through your files and purge what you don’t need anymore.

Your assignment for today:

• • Continue working on Habit #4.
  • Trash as much paper pile as possible.
  • Keep working on your Rainbow calendar.