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Setting up a Home Office Workspace

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:39-06:00February 9th, 2014|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips, Paper Management|Tags: filing system, papers, workspace|

Image courtesy of gameanna / FreeDigitalPhotos.net A new year signals the start of tax season. It’s the time to begin gathering last year’s documents, so you can get them to your tax preparer or to prepare them yourself. In either case, you need an area in your home to store documents and perform tasks associated with tax preparation or other document related household maintenance. Do you have a home office? It doesn’t necessarily have to be a room with a door. It can be a space in your home where you perform tasks such as bill paying, record keeping, [...]

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It’s Tax Time – Do You Know Where Your Documents Are?

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:48-06:00January 25th, 2012|Categories: Organizing Tips, Paper Management, Productivity|Tags: filing system, income taxes, papers|

It’s the beginning of a new year, the cycle starts all over again. It’s also time to think about filling our income tax forms for the past year. That April deadline can sneak up on you, so it’s better to get ahead of the game and start working on it now. Whether you fill out your own forms, or engage a tax preparation service, you need to gather all the required documents in order to complete the task of filling out the forms. In order to gather these documents, you need to know where they are. If you have a [...]

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Tackling Mountains of Magazines

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:49-06:00October 11th, 2011|Categories: Organizing Tips, Paper Management|Tags: discarding, paper clutter, recycling, subscriptions|

October is American Magazine month, and magazines are a big part of the challenge when it comes to paper clutter. The numbers of the top 100 American magazine subscriptions is staggering, in the billions! It’s no surprise then, that there are literally billions of magazines that come into our homes and businesses every month. With these kinds of numbers, and with the busy lives that we lead, it’s difficult to understand how anyone has time to keep up with the reading associated with the materials that come through our doors every month. Storing all this unread material can be costly, [...]

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Paper Clutter May Be The Biggest Organizing Challenge For Most

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:51-06:00January 26th, 2011|Categories: Organizing Tips, Paper Management|Tags: junk mail, organized, recycling, stress|

Paper clutter seems to be one of the biggest organizing challenges for, well, everyone actually. Most of my clients have clutter in the form of paper in various places all over their homes. Paper accounts for 25 percent of waste in the landfill and 33 percent of municipal waste. Recycling can help with these numbers but the point is that we have a lot of paper to deal with at any given time. Paper takes up a lot of space even when it’s organized. When it’s not, it becomes paper clutter. And as I’ve mentioned before, clutter produces stagnant energy, [...]

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Paying Bills Electronically to Save Time, Money & Stress!

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:52-06:00January 19th, 2011|Categories: Organizing Tips, Paper Management, Reduce Stress|Tags: electronic bill pay, online bill pay, save time|

These days everyone is looking for ways to not only save time but also money. Paying bills is something we all do, and it can be time consuming and stressful. Manually paying bills requires a type of system that will ensure your bills are paid on time to avoid late charges, which can be costly, and cause your stress level to climb higher. And no one needs more stress in their life! If your manual system does not work for you, and makes you dread the idea of tackling that growing mound of paper bills, you may want to consider paying bills [...]

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How to Create a Greeting Cards Station

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:52-06:00December 7th, 2010|Categories: Holiday Organization, Organizing Tips, Paper Management, Storage|Tags: cards, expandable file, files, holidays, supplies|

In the fast paced world in which we live today, there is not enough time to do everything we need to do, especially during the holidays. Sending greeting cards via snail mail is a task that takes some time to complete and is becoming obsolete in this electronic age, not to mention the rising cost of postage stamps. However, if you’re like many of the older generation, and still like to send holiday greeting cards by way of the postal service, having an organized system makes this task more efficient and more enjoyable. Creating a greeting cards station can provide [...]

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