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New class: Eliminating paper from your life 101

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Just realizing why you’ve kept a certain document will help you understand how to deal with it. Sign up here or go to the Adult School website and visit the catalog there. Contact me if you need help. We’ll talk about the common reasons that paper piles up.

AT&T 100
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Snail Mail 101

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manuals and documentation for stuff you no longer own; electric toothbrush, car, medical insurance plan. Files you need to maintain for legal reasons (tax returns, legal documents) are archives and should be kept in a less accessible spot, like the attic or the top shelf in the closet. Have a tray for to-be-filed documents.

Medical 100
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Keep Tabs on Your Credit

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The brochure also reminded me, and I will remind you: Shred any documents with sensitive financial or identity information on them. There is a maze of menus to get through, but it’s worth it. You’re also entitled to a free report anytime you are denied credit. Don’t give out your Social Security number unless you have to.

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Filing system technique

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Keep it a bit loose so you can pop medical documents into the medical folder and not have to hunt down a specific medical folder out of 20. Instead, put your attention on the scheme of your filing system. Having financial stuff together, medical stuff together, that kind of thing. Don’t make it too narrow and specific.

Filing 100
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Learning to See Clutter

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How about filing it with other documents from the spring conference? Dave (looking sheepish): Can't leave it on the counter, I guess? Me: Well, you probably won't need it anytime soon and you don't want it to get buried under a pile. Dave (relieved): Oh, yeah. That makes sense.

Learning 100
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Podcast 127: Tidy vs. organized

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We created folders for projects and one for her urgent to do’s, which she’d been collecting on scraps of paper, or using documents to remind her of them. It became clear that what she wanted my help with was to get as many things into the drawers, then later the closets and cabinets, as possible. But first we finished off with paper.

Staples 100
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Podcast 104: Busy people

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Tweak and reuse documents you’ve already written. It often turns out that some of the time you used was not truly adding value. Streamline your work. That means don’t invent everything from scratch. Use old projects as models for new ones. Recycle things. Create templates.

AT&T 100