We’ve been trying to clean up the clutter in our house this year, and I am concentrating right now on our office. I’ve been “collecting” all of our old bills and statements for the past couple years and putting them into a big pile. It’s really ugly. But the past few days, I have been scanning them in to the computer, and the pile is going down! I’d say I have about 50 more docs to scan. Our Epson 4490 scanner can scan to pdf (even multipage) which makes it super easy. I am using the naming convention “Company Date.pdf” (“Time Warner 20071019.pdf”) then dumping them into subfolders (Utilities, House, Auto, Medical, etc.). Then the papers go into the trash or shredder depending on what they are. I am doing about a dozen per day, plus anything new that comes in. I’d wish they were all just electronic statements to begin with, but not all the companies offer a paperless option.

I need to mention that it’s inspiring to read our friend Mikey’s decluttering blog posts. Very inspiring! His house is always so clean and organized.