Cleaning & Organizing
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Does anyone have any advice on the best way to organize/sort your home mail? I get so overwhelmed with everything we get in the mail and feel like we never have it under control.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!
Re: Mail
Sort mail immediately, don't dump it on a flat surface and tell yourself you'll go back to it later.
Pull out anything that's junk, and put it in the recycling (or shred it if appropriate) immediately.
If you have any paper bills, open them and put them wherever you pay bills or will see them.
Take only the magazines and catalogs you'll actually read to wherever you'll read them, and recycle the rest.
If there's anything left after that, sit down to enjoy it since it's rare to get anything really worthwhile in the mail!
I agree with sorting ASAP, but we also have a PO Box which has helped a ton. All bills and important mail go to the PO Box, which means 95% of what we receive at home is junk (the rest is usually cards, etc.).
With the PO Box I get it 1-2 times a week and sort asap. It's easier to manage since it's not a daily thing
We do a quick sort of our mail outside before we come in so we can toss anything we don't want right away. That usually cuts it in half. Then we don't let mail come past 5' inside the door unless we have a specific need to have it somewhere else and if that's the case we have spots set up where those things go.
Bills-straight to the computer to be paid, although we have automatic bill pay on a lot so we don't get a ton of paper from them
Magazines-to the livingroom (or in DHs magizines cases to the bathroom)
Things with personal information- in a pile that gets destroyed periodically
My parents have a wood stove and they just keep all the non shiney papers and toss them in a plastic bin until it's cold and use their junk/old mail as kindeling for a fire.
Ditto all of this. I sit down at the kitchen bar and make piles - junk, shred, bills, file - and then each pile goes to their respective homes immediately. I have a cute basket by the sofa for current magazines.
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