Re: Paperwork organizing

[Anonymous]

“motivation to keep on top of paperwork that needs to be addressed” – that’s the problem all right.

RANT START – Last month we got a collection notice from the cell phone company, I was shocked, because I treat all bills like hot potatoes and “warehouse” them with online banking as soon as I get them. But I couldn’t print out the invoice online, and forgot about it, too many emails in my inbox, next month same thing, forgotten again. I called Bell and complained when I got their collection threat (which was mailed 5 days after the drop-dead date), and they said “you should contact our tech support” – well, I had to figure it out for myself, it turns out that the problems coincided with a change in internet browser (I switched from Chrome to Firefox to use the internet blocking add-on) – Bell doesn’t support Firefox! (pretty sad for a communications company). I had to tell tech support, they were useless. END RANT

Anyway, after my husband cooled off from his near heart attack and I didn’t have to use the yellow pages to find a divorce lawyer, I figured out that I was way behind on my filing of paid bills (they were stuffed in a pile on an unused dining room chair – the dining room is my office at the moment), and that if I’d been up to date, I’d have figured it out.

Today I had to purge 2011 files into bankers boxes for my business, so I decided to tackle the paid bills pile.

Problem – no room to sort them. Thank goodness the kitchen floor was reasonably clean, so I spread them out as I sorted them by payee. The nice thing about a pile is it’s usually in chronological order, provided it doesn’t fall over (which happens a lot).

7 months worth now filed. Hopefully I will keep on top of it this year.

Next job – take the box of sensitive documents to the UPS store and pay them to shred it.

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