Posts Tagged ‘paper’
The Right Sort
In: Clutter Control
31 Oct 2011When speaking of people, “the right sort” tends to have a very nasty usage, but when speaking of excess stuff, “the right sort” is the best way to get some really good organizing started. Typically, when one resolves to organize a cluttered basement or home office, there is a tendency to throw out not enough [...]
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- Tags: clothes, home office, paper, purging, sorting
Getting Your Papers in Shape
In: Paper Management
2 Sep 2011Are you flooded with paper in your home? BIG paper challenges require BIG steps. An easy way to be as aggressive with your paper flood as it is with you, is to start by sorting shapes. The biggest deterrent to dealing with paper is making decisions. The vast majority of these decisions are easy, but [...]
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- Tags: paper, paper management, sorting
Files In A Bind
In: Paper Management
8 Mar 2010If your shelves are overrun with binders and they’re busting at the seams it may be time to rethink your use of binders. Binders have their place, but like so many things, they will serve you better if used within limits. Here’s how: 1. Reserve For Reference. Binders make sense for items you may actually [...]
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- Tags: binders, paper, reference
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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- Paper Management (25)
- Systems (65)
- Closet (10)
- Time Management (16)
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- To File Is To Find
- The Weekly Round Up
- My Case Against Paper Clips
- What’s Making Your Tasks So Difficult
- What A Waste?
- How Dedicated Zones Work
- Making Multi-purpose Work
- “We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat!”
- The Right Sort
- 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 [...]
- Elaine Hoffmann: I want to thank you and your amazing team for the great work you have done organizing my basement,at [...]
- Linda Kuppersmith: What a brilliant concept. As a business owner that wears several hats (Sales, marketing, accounting [...]
- Matt: Karen, sorry it's taken me so long to get back to your inquiry. I have used several different smart [...]