Organized travel documents
I went on a week-long trip to visit my parents in mid-July. It involved air travel, car rental, and hotel stay (my parents live in a small condo, so I don’t stay with them).
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Taming the pile of active papers
I have this clean desk policy that I’ve been blogging about since 2008. Basically, I make sure I clean my desk off at the end of every business day. It’s glorious and it helps me hit the ground running when I arrive at my desk in the morning.
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How's your mail doing?
I was looking back at posts from a year ago and was reminded that on April 5, 2010, I posted the results of a poll I did on the blog about how you handle your mail.
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Final reminder: free shredding event
Tomorrow’s the free shredding event sponsored by NAPO-St. Louis and Shred and Protect Document Services.
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Help for catching up on your shredding
One of the things I did during that glorious week between Christmas and New Year’s was clean out my files. My recycling box is full but I also have a large pile on top of my shredder.
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Need more room to label your file folders?
Do you have trouble getting all the information you want onto file folder labels? Whether you use a label maker, labels printed on your computer, or handwritten labels, it can be tough to fit everything you want on the label to make it meaningful.
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How's your relationship with the mail?
I’m usually excited when the mail comes. Don’t ask me why; gone are the days of surprise letters or cards from people. And that’s okay, I love email. But I always scurry to the door when the mail arrives.
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How long should I keep that stuff?
Just yesterday, I was interviewed by the fabulous journalist Michelle Rafter for an article called Paper Chase: Should It Stay or Should It Go? about how long to keep certain types of records. It’s already up on the website Second Act, which aimed at people who are (like me) 40 years or over.
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Handling the mail: the survey results
A couple of weeks ago, I put together a poll on how folks deal with the daily onslaught of postal mail. The results are in and I think they’re kind of interesting.
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How do you handle your mail?
Dealing the mail that comes to the house can be a huge hassle for many people. Most of my clients have difficulty dealing with it and I know I’ve let it pile up in the past. I’m thinking of developing some sort of product to help people with their mail and I’m curious how my blog readers handle their mail.
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Has your shredding piled up?
Shredding is so important. I’m often shocked when I meet new clients to learn that they don’t own a shredder. They think tearing up sensitive documents is sufficient. Then I’ll share with them a little experiment done on one of the morning shows that a client told me about. They took a credit card offer and tore it up. Then they taped it back together, photocopied it, filled it out and got the credit card. To me, that’s proof enough that shredding is essential. Identity theft is too devastating to mess with.
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Past, present and future
I was re-reading Judith Kolberg’s excellent book, Conquering Chronic Disorganization
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