In this age of electronic greetings, it’s delightful to get an honest-to-goodness card in the mail. Someone went to the trouble to buy the card, sign it, address it, stamp it, and mail it. That person must really like you! Getting a birthday or anniversary or congratulations or thank you card, with a personal message in it – and in your friend or relative’s familiar handwriting – feels great. But then what?
Read more →The last time I wrote about receipts was last year in “Making Sense of Receipts.” In that post, I talked about how to track and analyze your spending, as this was what my clients were saying was the reason why they were accumulating receipts. Since then, I have continued to encounter stacks and stacks of receipts at my clients’ homes, some of them years old. These clients haven’t claimed they were saving them for tracking. They were saving them because they…
Read more →Very often, when I am helping a client go through a huge pile of paper clutter, the client insists that any piece of paper that has his/her name and address on it must be shredded. I have tried to convince my clients that this wasn’t necessary — after all, your name and address are easily obtained on the Internet –but most of them were not reassured. Thus I was excited when I heard about a class last year for organizers on the…
Read more →I have a confession to make. There is always a pile of paper on my desk. It’s true, even organizers struggle with paper. After all, we, too, live in this world where we get more mail in a week than our parents got in a month, and more mail in a month than our grandparents got in their lifetimes.
Read more →On Sunday, May 20th, Staples is teaming up with the City of New York for the 5th annual Shred Fest at 14 locations throughout the five boroughs. The first four people to arrive at each location will receive a free personal shredder from Staples! 5TH ANNUAL SHRED FEST DATE: Sunday, May 20, 2012 TIME: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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