What to do with Receipts Now That Tax Time is Over
Tips for storing—or better yet, scanning—your tax-related papers.
Tips for storing—or better yet, scanning—your tax-related papers.
One of my top requests as a Professional Organizer is to help clients organize their personal and business finances.
We’ve got way to go to reach the paperless future shown in The Jetsons and Star Trek.
Virtually every client I have – and every person I talk to – is fed up with dealing with paper. And it’s no surprise, since, like email, we have a constant influx of it that we’re simply forced to deal with. The worst part is that even though we all have paper in our lives, we’re never really taught what to do with it or how to manage it. It’s no wonder that people are practically in tears by the time they call me asking for help.
Paper takes a lot of space to store, and especially if you’re used to searching for documents on your computer, rifling through paper piles and digging into file cabinets can seem practically archaic!
One of my areas of specialty in my productivity and organizing consulting work is paper management – helping my clients determine the best ways to process, manage and store the paper in their lives and in their work.
The final month of the year is here, and for many of us, it’s a time of wrapping things up before the new year rolls around. This year, as part of your year-end wrap-up, consider taking a few moments to revisit the systems that serve you every day, and see if you can improve them.
Creating a storage map, or diagram, of how and where your items are stored will make them easier to find—and easier to put away.
Finding a unique filing system that works for you is an important step to staying organized!
There are some upsides and downsides to scanning paperwork and saving them onto your computer.