Sorting the Paper work

Which gave me a change to blog, since I seem to think very well through my fingers lately.  I did make a list on paper, funny, I had to walk into the old workshop to get the idea for it.

So far, I want 4 file boxes for the shelf under the computer desk.  I think I can part with my basket with file folders standing up in it if I put a triangular wedge in the bottom of my file box so that my files run up hill and I can see all their labels at the same time.  That will make it easier for me to put paper work away, flipping through files all the same size make me feel dizzy, angry and nauseous (yeah, that’s over the top, but I am talking feelings here.)  I especially hate how folders stuffed with things get shorter and harder to find!  I basically hate file folders.

In my basket I only use two folders, the one for bill stubs that have been paid, and the one for tax deductable receipts.  envelopes of bills unpaid go in the front (sometimes with envelopes of things I’m not sure what to do with but don’t want to loose, like homeschooling field trip newsletters) envelopes of stuff I don’t have to do anything about but don’t know what to do with go in the back, like the reports from the kid’s 529.  I not only do not know if I have to save it or not, lately I don’t even want to read them.

DH does have a point.

So, new idea:  4 folders for bill stubbs marked with the time of year, so I know where to put them, they don’t get fat and fall down, and I can empty them to the shredder when I don’t need them anymore.  A folder for tax deductable receipts.  A folder for finacial stuff, but put in the finaces file box (we have one, but things are getting stuck in the bill box, I couldn’t reach where the finacial file box was kept.  If lids slow me down, imagion pulling out the ladder.)

A new box for homeschool stuff.

Four boxes with lids, lables, colorful files…this is beginning to sound less like penace, and more like a craft project.