A System for Paper Clutter
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2023
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What documents do you keep?
I still keep B.certs.of myself & my 2 grown up children😊🇸🇬 but got rid all of their school supplies,since they were graduated already 💪💪🙏
No photos, books for me......its Certificates, policies, bank docs, id proofs........all imp so can't get rid of them.... ufffff
TK is right on when he explains how communication should work in a household. Many marriages would still be intact if people realized this. I believe increasing resentment is one of the major causes of divorce.
Unfortunately loads... Payslips, housing documents, bills, some of my former students' work... Paper clutter drives me crazy and I've been trying to minimise.
I love the no-pile rule!! Eliminate all piles accumulated on flat surfaces 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
I keep ID documents, deeds and titles to the house and cars, some other legal documents that I have. I used to keep tax documents and HSA receipts until we got audited and I learned a digital copy of everything was as good as the original. I also used to keep medical reports, test results, etc., but I’m currently working on digitizing those. My ultimate goal is to get rid of the file cabinet altogether.
I just decluttered my file cabinet last night. I do this yearly and had still kept saving receipt, old bills, etc. that were over 5,10 years old 😊😊😊 I was hoarding all these thinking I might need them.
My father constantly “threatened” to replace all horizontal surfaces with 45 degree angles. 😂
Thank you for the tips I’m working on this paper clutter. It’s not heavy but it’s taking up too much space. I finally got the closet down to one small shared closet. Progress …
Thank you for spreading the message, more people need see this. And I LOVE that you videos are add free!!
The irony of discussing reducing paper clutter while reading from a stack of paper 😅
I’ve been slowly working on getting rid of paper clutter. I’ve been scanning like crazy! My problem now is that a lot of it has just become digital clutter. I’ve also been working on that and reworking my file system, but it’s definitely still a work in progress!
@relliesal,
I just kind of giggle to myself when I hear people talking about getting rid of paper clutter by putting it in digital form or, my personal favorite, "THE CLOUD"!
What these people don't understand is, with someone who is challenged with paper clutter/organization it all starts in the brain__it's a brain-function/mindset issue, sometimes coupled with 'emotional attatchment' syndromes. I should know, I have that 'problem'.
It's not about focusing on the physical clutter as much as it's retraining the brain__discovering the reasoning behind the cluttering is one of the most important things to address.
For clarity, someone who feels the 'need' for their home to 'look like no one lives there' has their own 'emotional challenges' to deal with, and shouldn't 'expect' their partner to adhere to their requests in order to appease their own personal discomforts.
There's a YT channel where a woman (can't recall her name) defines 4 distinct types of "clutter bugs"__one type has to have everything put away neatly behind closed doors, while another has to see their 'stuff' or else it's 'out of sight, out of mind', etc.!
You can probably find out what type you are by searching "which clutterbug are you?" on YT__it's pretty interesting!
As a last note, it's similar to understanding that an alcoholic will always be an alcoholic, whether they actively drink or not__unless the emotions and mindset are dealt with.
Hope this is helpful. 🙏😇✨💫🌱🌿🌻🐝🌳🌎💖🙌😺
I do keep old photos in a shoebox storage which is kept on a shelf in the closet. These are my own photos from decades past, which I pull down and take shots to then share with my siblings (five other brothers and sisters) in our siblings room for special occasions, birthdays and such, memories of our parents, etc. My siblings get the biggest kick out of this. So, no, I would not want to change a thing with this arrangement.
That's different, at least they have a purpose and a meaning. You visit it. It's important to you. I think things like that even they would say are an exception.
Great holistic approach with the physical and the relationship aspect.
I LOVE paper. Not important paper like bills or documents or records or tax stuff. I mean patterned paper and mulberry paper and wallpaper and origami paper and tissue paper...I wish I knew how to be a "maximal minimalist!"
So much paper mailed goes straight to trash
My solution and cure for paper clutter is as soon as I receive my mail or paper from wherever I check it over and then I Shred whatever is garbage which most of it is. A paper shredder is better than sliced bread. It's a God send, lol. It is for me. Then I just take it to my recycle area and it's gone.
Such thoughtful advice, T.K. And great comedic relief.
When i was in the events industry before covid happen, my papers that were involved were mainly art brochures/ festival booklets / key maps of the locations / and the essential guide to managing the event - from start to finish, i am no longer part of the events industry so decluttering brochures and past event notes were a thing in the past for me / but i used to keep them in files that they turned brown, i had a project for a news article during my days in the college - and after leaving it in the table drawer, it became mouldy, i kept it over the years cause it was the first writing that i did which involves some form of recognition, i cant deal with paper clutter so i am always organising in files - so i spend on beautiful files for storage of redundant paper -
nowadays i just keep the certificates / and things that i can reference using my past event notes - it took time to filter whats important but i cant deal with too much paper - so my table is rather neat with 2 dividers with files of just the important notes.
but i honestly think the events industry used the most number of trees to print booklets/ tickets/ and etc
even as an educator now, i just use google docs for powerpoint/ key informations. It helps me with lesser stress on piling up documents.
So cool, I’ve literally been wanting to clear all my paper clutter yet dk what I’m supposed to keep vs what I can get rid of💫 -I literally asked my partner the other day
I need this!
This has been difficult for me, especially when I’ve undergone credentialing processes several times with work, where I actually need to find papers that I probably should’ve shredded years ago. I wish I had a practice of putting things on a hard drive years ago.
To save having a shredder I put wads of documents into a bowl of water and after a few days when it's nice and soft tear it up into pieces - like paper mache. It's satisfying ripping up the pages too.
Wait. That is such a good idea.
@freshlondon2283,
Such a great idea! The person who's papers they belong to should be the one to 'do the deed', that's why it's so satisfying. 💖🙌😺
After having a house with too much stuff in it I agree with the statement "I want my house to look like no one lives there.".
The only paper documents I keep are my diplomas, report cards and certain documents that require me to keep as a physical copy. The rest are digital, and I requested those to be digital. I do have some books left after decluttering, but I wanted to keep them, and the rest I donated the rest(300 books) to the local library for other people to enjoy
Write reject on any junk mail, without opening, and put it in outgoing mail, the senders will get it back and take you off their mailing list.
best practice for my paper clutter: check incoming paper immediately (if you can't, make an inbox) and sort directly in three categories.
1) to keep, gtd right away or set a date for dealing with it, keep it in a safe place you can easily access like a folder or a box, a file system, scan when useful and when you do not have to keep the original, you may put important documents in a water and fireproof box.
2) to hold for a certain time, temporarily needed, keep it in a separate place, a file, a folder, put a date of "expiry" on it, set a monthly date for going through and trash "expired" paper
3) to trash right away, destroy it when sensitive data is on it
Where is the link to the photo scanner?? It's not referenced
I do not like Clouds, Where is the cloud? I need to see it.
I can’t see links to scanners & shredder, etc mentioned …
I tore my policy papers with recent being bank passbook..... I'd to lie that I lost it 😂😂🙈🙈
Hi guys. I love your content. I’m currently working on paper at this time but would like to know if you have any suggestions or episodes that I can refer to regarding safe destruction of computers, phones & old devices. Thank you.
I second this. I have 2 old laptops, they crashed with virus stuff, but I can't just put them into my city's electronics recycling bin, right? Wouldn't that be nuts (safety)? I'm considering going to a small computer shop I trust and paying them to make these "throw away save" - if that is even a thing... I have no clue. ❓
Watching this highlight right after I got rid of my paper clutter. What a coincidence 😅
My system for document clutter is the shreader.
I being following your channel and I noticed that my email was full with emails from 2018 to 2023 with emails that are archive. If it wasn’t for this channel, I will still be accumulating all those emails that they don’t need to be in the file. It takes time to delete and unsubscribe to a bunch of emails that I never subscribe. How do I stop all the junk emails is there an, easy way. 🤷♀️.
@martamorto33,
I'm guessing the one and only way to eliminate receiving spam/junk mail is to subscribe to a 'private' email service.
When I first set up an internet account with AT&T years ago, I NEVER received junk mail. Once they merged with Yahoo that was the end of that! And, of course, these days, with all the '3rd party piggybacking' to emails you sign up for, you can never really get away from junk mail anymore__it's disgusting! 😒
UPS STORES CAN ALSO SHRED
You can "feed two birds with one scone" :)
I don't need a paper shredder, just run water over your paper & it turns to pulp
Can you recycle it this way?
@@fam695 ,
If adding personal information to the recycling bin bothers you you shouldn't do it! In other words, deal with papers with personal info in a more 'permanent' method. 💖🙌😺
Anything i have online access to, i get rid of paper copies. I went down to just 6 years of tax returns
In architecture, this doesn't work at all.
Why are your thumbnails always so aggressively judgemental?
Because they’re aggressively judgmental😂jk…
@@BloomByCC 😆
Saying you need the house to be orderly when you come home sounds very 1950s. That line of request would not work with me.
It sounded very judgmental and is not the way to enlist cooperation.
Just food for thought. I’d like to know is anyone tries that and it backfires.
Jan