paper clutter

20 March 2013 by Marcia Francois Leave a Comment

Get A Handle on the Paper Clutter

When I ask people what the most difficult part of organising their office is, the majority of them mention paper.

I think it’s because it feels like paper multiplies when you turn around 🙂

It’s true though – I also have to be very strict about keeping up with my paper systems.

A few years ago I wrote a post on the Organising Blog and asked people to tell me all their office problems.

We’ll just pretend it was an Ask Marcia column 😉

That post had some wonderful comments and in response, I wrote “7 easy steps to organise your office” which is now the main component of the organise your office system.

Of course in addition to the paper, there are emails and computer to organise, both of which are tackled in this product.

If your office is less than what your dream looks like (and I’m not talking magazine-worthy, just being able to open the door-worthy), then please take a look and see what you think.

I know this will help you, especially since it’s about organising according to your personality, not a one size-fits all solution.

15 March 2013 by Marcia Francois 9 Comments

I ask, you answer – which is a bigger challenge in your life?

Which is currently the biggest organising challenge/ problem in your life: paper or email?

Please leave a comment and tell me exactly what the problem is and I’ll try to get through as many of those questions over the next month or two.

PS for me, it’s email. I just hate pieces of paper lying around and they find the bin very quickly 🙂

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14 October 2012 by Marcia Francois 3 Comments

{31 days of easy organising solutions} – do you really need to file that?

Okay, confession time.

Do you know that I absolutely LOATHE filing?

True!

I find it very boring and avoid doing it as much as possible.

Which is why I keep very little paper. I get my bank, cell phone provider and the city of Joburg to email statements to me which helps to cut down on all the paper.

The last time when I did some filing this was my pile. Not very much at all.

Another confession, I toss every telephone account except the very latest one. All the payments I’ve made reflect on the statement so why hang onto old ones?

My question to you – if you want to get on top of the paper, first ask yourself if you really need to keep that, and then, do you REALLY need to file it?