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Mail Mess! How do you organize it?
The pile of mail that is sitting on top of my kitchen counter is seriously embarrassing. I'm almost tempted to sign myself up to be on Hoarders. 
How do you organize your in-coming snail mail?
Re: Mail Mess! How do you organize it?
Sorta like this, but with three pockets instead of seven, bills, mags/cataloges, and to be shredded
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First, I go through it as soon as I get it. It doesn't land on any surface until I've done an initial sort.
Initial sort:
> Immediate trash or recycling (and then immediately put it in the trash or recycle it, not just put it in a pile
> item that needs some sort of action from me -- a bill pay or an invitation or something
> Item that can be read at my leisure at another point in time.
Then I really only have 2 piles: Now/Action or Later/Leisure.
That way, when I have time in which I either want to tackle the to-do's (a few times a week?) or catch up on the non-important part (once a week?) I can focus on the same activity at once, same mindset.
Izzy and Baby A ~ Adorable Punks
Nothing too fancy. We have a slotted mail organizer in the office.
Every day I pick up the mail. Magazines go on the side table for reading-then put into the magazine bin that's emptied every few months.
Bills get wrote on the calendar (few and far between-thank you paperless!).
Invitations get put on the fridge until event is over.
Cards are put in card box.
Randoms are put in mail sorter that's gone through every Thursday.
Make a pregnancy ticker
FOR ALL OF YOU OUT THERE THAT PAY YOUR BILLS ONLINE---- I HOPE YOUR IDENTITY IS STOLEN. THERE ARE 5 - 6 MILLION JOBS THAT DEPEND ON THE PAPER INDUSTRY, I PRAY THE JOB THAT IS AFFECTED BY YOUR NOT USING REAL MAIL IS YOURS!!!
holy psycho.
there are also millions of trees being cut down needlessly every year for junk mail...?
anyway...
i toss the junk, then i put the stuff that needs to be addressed in one place (we have a bill sorter) and the stuff that is "leisure" (magazines, etc.) on the kitchen table in a napkin holder, which makes it stand up nice and neat. when the napkin holder is full, it's time to figure out where all that stuff should go if i haven't gotten around to it before that point.
WOW @ above post.
Good ideas, also get your mail less frequently and then deal with it less frequently (unless you are expecting something) Bills come with plenty of time to pay so it sitting in the mailbox a couple of days won't hurt. If you wish, you can go to DMA choice and stop getting junk mail.