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Today is National Organize Your Home Day. It is a good reminder of the importance of
having an organized home and no it’s not to avoid shame if company drops in
unexpectedly. Rather, our home should be
a place of refuge from the crazy world we live in. January is a great time to
get your home in order; the weather outside is frightful so naturally we spend
more time indoors and in our home. I bet like me de-cluttering, simplifying, or
organizing made its way to your New Year’s resolution list.
Speaking of the New Year, have you pulled together last year’s financial records? I like to use a colored envelope for all my tax records (this year’s is blue). I went thru my files from last year, shredded the documents I don’t need to keep 7 years and put the rest in the envelope. When my W2 and 1099s show up, I’ll add them too. By early February I’ll be ready for my accountant.
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We have photos galore and since I’ve been researching our
family tree other family members keep gifting me their photos. So while it is
hard to tell, I have made progress scanning picture as I try to reduce the
actual photos in the house. I’ll keep plugging away at it in 2015; hopefully it
will start to look like I’ve made progress soon.
The lack of visual confirmation of progress with the photos got
me looking for a project that I could see more immediate results. The linen
closet was my chosen target. Now that that is done, I will spend some time
shredding some of the incredible amount of non-financial paper I seem to
constantly accumulate, while I contemplate my next de-cluttering project.
