Archive for the ‘Paper Management’ Category
Receipt Control
27 Feb 2011One of the most familiar items to go homeless in any work environment is the receipt. You may be frustrated with how messy they look everywhere, but the solution is never as easy as throwing them all out, because they DO matter. Not ALL of them matter, but without a clear plan, one tends to [...]
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- Tags: receipts, scanner, Systems, taxes
Paper Drain Or Paper Trap?
In: Paper Management
1 Feb 2011Would you say there is more of a paper drain or paper trap in your work environment? In other words, does paper circulate easily, like water down a drain, or does it accumulate, like water in a plugged sink? If a sink is overflowing with water, we want the plumber to fix what is plugging [...]
Shred-iquette
In: Paper Management
5 Aug 2010Nothing keeps me busier than paper management. Computer advocates once promised a “paperless society,” but in an age when we are printing out our emails, paper is here to stay for a while. Before I can get to my best advice on paper management, however, I must first stop and have a conversation about SHREDDING. [...]
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- Tags: shredding
Where Should I Put the Mail?
In: Paper Management
21 Jul 2010It’s a common question but it has an uncommon answer. Mail doesn’t go anywhere. That’s because it stops being mail the second it comes out of your mailbox. Bills-to-pay need a home, material-to-read need a home, and statements-to-file need a home, but it’s a mistake to allow the daily collection to take up residence ANYWHERE. [...]
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- Tags: bills-to-pay, mail
17 Minute File Diet
In: Paper Management
17 May 2010A couple weeks ago in my May Tip of the Month I recommended transferring your old taxes, old statements, and old tax supporting material from your file cabinet to a more remote location. I said that it should only take 15-20 minutes if you had a user-friendly file system set up. This weekend, I followed [...]
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- Tags: file cabinet, filing system
About Matt Baier Organizing
Professional Organizer Matt Baier and his team declutter and organize homes and offices in Stamford, New Canaan, Greenwich, Westport, Darien, Norwalk, Fairfield, Westchester County, and New York City.
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- Lisa Corrado: Matt, you are so right when you say many of what we consider tasks are actually projects. And I real [...]
- Steven: Tasks are simple. If you try to finish the tasks then think that you have completed the project. You [...]
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