How to Minimize & Organize Paper Clutter in Your Workspace 2023 (Simple & Quick!)

Feeling overwhelmed by the paper piles or paper clutter filling your home or office? Here are 10 practical tips you can implement right now to start quickly organizing and sorting all of the paper around you with the best minimal paper organization system.

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0:00-0:51: Intro
0:52-1:03: #1 Mistake People Make When Organizing Paper
1:04-1:24: #1 Strategy I Use To Organize Paper
1:25-2:20: Tip 1
2:21-2:46: Tip 2
2:47-4:15: Tip 3
4:16-5:07: Tip 4
5:08-7:04: Tip 5
7:05-8:00: Tip 6
8:01-9:11: Tip 7
9:12-10:00: Tip 7.5
10:01-10:19: Tip 8
10:20-11:05: Tip 9
11:06-12:09: Tip 10

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[kiba]

Taking a picture and scanning is a good idea for some old paperwork.

[kimberleymansfield]

Hi Sherry, I needed this video, so thank you for your calm and easy direction. I have been finally tackling my oh...40 or so bins and bankers boxes stuffed to overflowing after almost 40 years. What a huge and at times overwhelming task. Today is day 9 at this. I mean really what did I need with tax returns from 1990 anyways? lol I am having the most difficulty with every single thing my daughter made since 1987( she is now 40) that I kept. Goodness! I have decided to load up car with those treasures after chatting with her and let her decide what she would like to keep and what she can part with....or rather, what I can part with. This is Swedish Death Cleaning on steroids. But I won't stop until I am done. Thanks again.

[Megan]

your blouse is lovely, the color really suits you 🧡

[JanelleA.]

This was extremely helpful. Thank you!! 😊

[LaPetiteUne]

Very good advice! Please consider doing a separate video where you go into more details about setting up a filing system based on how each individual wants to RETRIEVE the information, perhaps with 3 or 4 examples.

[DeeDee-zgdh]

Thank you so much! The FAST approach is a good one, and thinking about how I want to retrieve papers is also very helpful. I feel motivated now!

[TranscendingTrauma]

In the fast system what is the difference between Action and Schedule?

[nadinefrandsen]

Do you have any advice about what to keep as far as medical information. I have huge piles of EOB ‘s, for example.

[dobycorder]

?? I have 30+ years of paper for retirement investments, I keep for FIFO calculations. Can I toss those?? Love this! Will set up now .

[LindaMills-uj]

Wow, just wow!!! I found this so helpful, thank you so much. I do about 50% of what you suggest already, but am now motivated to get the whole lot sorted! I’m not so bad on contemporary stuff, my problem is mainly the historic stuff in boxes….🤷‍♀️(I’m 73 and have papers from nearly fifty years of marriage and life events). I’ve also been concentrating on filing stuff ‘in case of my incapacity/demise for my kids and I think that has distracted me from keeping up with other stuff….Anyway I am now re motivated. It’s past midnight in the UK where I am but I’ll be scheduling and planning tomorrow to move to the FAST system. Thank you again 😊x

[jennyp]

Really great advice. I'm pretty good on current paper stuff, but I do have a question. I'm in my 60s and have recently retired due to health issues. I was an accountant and I attained my education level for that in my late 30s and as a result I still have all my textbooks, which are all neatly on the bookshelf. My real issue is all the personal paperwork I created in studying. I know it's an emotional issue that has made me hang onto all of them. Do you have some wise words that can help me get out of that mind-set?
I was considering scanning them all, but there's just too much to even consider doing that and I'd rather try and be a little bit more pro-active.

[JayJr.]

I scan all my papers and file them using a file cabinet and standard file system (taxes, bills, insurance, school, etc...) I review my files once a year and shred documents I no longer need, such as the vehicle and house insurance from the previous year, but I keep my scanned copies forever. My scanned documents are encrypted on my HD using VeraCrypt, and I have an online and local backup of all my files. I opt for soft copies as much as possible, like gas and hydro bills, bank statements, etc, which I always download to my computer and save to my encrypted drive.

[jessicahelene]

I have trouble determining what papers are important to keep. Some papers come with a disclosure at the bottom saying “keep for your records” and more often than not, those are the papers I’d be more apt to toss otherwise. Same goes for documents needed to be kept for tax purposes (non-business related). If only the school systems in the US actually taught us what the government would be expecting from us. 🤦🏻‍♀️