Every year we receive one of these personal social security statements. We're not sure when they started arriving in our mail box but we remember being quite perplexed and unsure (to hang onto or tos...
With the long list of imagined home improvement projects we had dreamt up finishing while on vacation, we only completed one major project: emptying and organizing the closet. Hidden in the back of ou...
Organizing products are supposed to make your life easier, right? Unfortunately, that's not always the case. Take for instance, the paper tray. Used to keep different types of paper organized, they...
Last month we covered How To Manage and File paperwork. I showed the short term filing system I use and now, after a quick trip to Target, I've improved my system: ...
In our post on organizing the other day, Li wrote: I need help wrangling paper. I dealt with it okay when I was single but now that I do paperwork/bills for the whole family, I'm drowning in unfiled p...
We live by Mary Poppins’s credo: “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and, oops, the job’s a game.” While it’ll always be a challenge for us to fi...
If you're using your dining table as your desk, where are you eating dinner? Finding a good spot to work in our one bedroom home can be a challenge. We have a console behind our couch that we usually...
In small apartments, we don't often have the luxury of an extra room for an office. Bill paying, checkbook balancing and written correspondence usually take place on the nearest available table. Oft...
Around this time of January, year end statements and tax related documents start to arrive. And if I'm not careful, they'll get lost with the rest of the bills to pay, etc. I don't have a huge home...
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