file, don’t pile!

That is just one of the tips I picked up from a professional organizer.  This was a few years ago, but now we are trying to implement some organizational “systems” in our new cozy house.  I’m not  naming names, but one of us prefers to save things while the other is heartless when it comes to tossing things.  I’m hoping we’ll find the happy medium.   While I would love to have Patty from Stuffbusters come back and deal with the endless pile of shoes by the doors, I think I can figure it out.  At least the Container Store has plenty ‘o options to help you get organized and make it pretty at the same time.

So while I was sifting through the files, my husband poked his nose in and told me that I really do not need to save my tax return from 1991.   I resisted the urge to tape his mouth shut with my fancy label maker and instead told him that I do indeed.  You see, it was my very first tax return and at the time I could not be prouder of that fact that I was earning $15,000 a year and could afford my own apartment in Atlanta.  But I am learning that whatever system works for you, is a good one!

October 15, 2011. Uncategorized.