No More Paper Piles Download #1
Organize File-Cabinet Papers Download #2

Document Organization

How to Easily Organize your Household Papers!

When it comes to home document organization, the idea is overwhelming to nearly everyone UNTIL they understand that papers should be divided into two types.

1) what’s needed now (your incoming and “needs further action” papers…see download #1  below) AND

2) what’s needed later (your file-cabinet reference files…see download #2 below).

This understanding alone can save you paper processing stress!

Why are the two (2) document organization downloads on this page important to you?

Because they both contain the helpful lists and instruction sheets you need to FINALLY grasp how to gather, categorize, organize AND easily retrieve:

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WHY store important documents for easy access?

In a nutshell, your most important papers are called vital records. (Think: identity docusments, birth certificates, marriage certificates, social security cards, life insurance policies, etc.) You must store important documents in such a way that it allows for easy accessibility for it to be any good to you.  YOUR vital records are papers with information that is crucial about:

1. You
2. Your Family
3. Your Home
4. Your Finances
5. Your Health
6. Your History

WHAT are some of the “roadblocks” when you store important documents:

• You don’t know where to start (Our binder kit comes with 8 pre-labeled binder tabs AND easy to understand step-by-step instruction sheets.)
• You don’t know what to gather and store (Our binder kit has 6 brief lists for the collection of specific needed documents.)
• You are stuck in the unknown (Our binder kit includes: contact forms, valuables lists, a total of 25 forms AND a table of contents.)

WHO needs a Vital Records “Grab & Go” Binder Kit to store important documents?

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Photo Organizing in my own home is a routine project that I attack quarterly. Each time a new season rolls around I spend one-half day photo organizing which includes sorting, purging, labeling (naming) and storing my new digital photographs and prints. Read on down the page for 5 photo organizing tips I’ve come to understand over the years. But before you get to these tips, I’ve got great news for you.

Because I love to learn how to better organize anything & everything I recently attended an exceptional training session titled “Best Strategies and Practices for Photo Organizing and Storage”. I then spent a few days researching online. With the info I gleaned from my training course and the research I did additionally, I have created a very reasonably priced printable product (ONLY $10), my Photo Organizing Mastery Set, that comes immediately to your email inbox in PDF document form for immediate storage or printing. (READ ON to learn about the “get it right” guarantee we offer you on ALL our Professional Organizer Insider Secrets Info Packets AND to see what this great photo organizing kit includes.)

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  I just left the home of Marian who hired me  to help her feel better prepared for life’s unexpected. I worked with Marian on her earthquake emergency preparation because she lives within the Rocky Mountain’s fault line in Utah. We finished up readying her 3 month consumable food supply and 72 hour emergency kits. We are now working on her ‘Vital Documents Grab & Go Binder’. She is already feeling much better prepared.

The following are recommendations made by FEMA – The USA’s Federal Emergency Management Agency which oversees accountability for emergency preparedness including earthquake emergency preparation in the USA. (The tips in paranthesis belong to me.) Read more…

Take Command!   Create a Paperwork Landing Pad

Do you need a go-to spot for paper management of papers that are incoming? As a professional organizer servicing the Utah County area, I find the organizing service most often requested by my residential clients is a workable paper management center. A place for them to stay atop incoming and outgoing family centered information. Papers and memorabilia come into our homes daily and need a place to “land” so they can be easily retrieved and dealt with.

Here in Utah we have larger families (4 individuals) with many of our children involved in after-school clubs, sports, and other activities. The amount of “stuff” brought home and needing an organized “rest stop” is often doubled. If YOUR kitchen counter is cluttered with family schedules, school papers, mail, or invitations; I suggest you assign a small file box as the “family file” to help clean up that chaos. The family management center is a place for your incoming paper to “live” until it’s completed. This works ideally for busy families needing to organize life’s activities. Here’s how to get started:   Read more…

The idea of writing biography pages and keeping a family history was not appealing to me for most of my life. I knew in my heart that I should be doing it, but it was just too hard for me. Then twelve years ago, my oldest daughter Nik taught me through example the simple steps to writing biography pages as I lived my life…week by week. I update my personal record each Sunday afternoon by writing about the five (5) weekly notables. Nik’s once a week idea removed the overwhelm. A few more written biography suggestions follow so YOU won’t feel overwhelmed about writing your own written living biography:   Read more…