Well I was going to post this last week, but since that was a themed WFMW, I'll post it this week.
I redid my filing cabinet one night when I couldn't sleep because it was taking me too long to file.
First I put all the files I likely wouldn't need again at the back of the cabinet behind the divider (i.e. non current tax years, I have to keep them in case I'm audited).
Then in front of the tax year folders I put folders that I need rarely, like insurance (I only get one letter a year), car repair bills (4 times a year). Investment files from previous years etc.
In the front on the drawer I have the following 6 hanging files:
Household Bills (hanging file) with folders for: water, gas, telephone, electric, property tax (shred old bills)
Credit Card - Each card in it's own folder (shred old bills)
Banking - Each bank in it's own folder by year (i.e. CIBC - 2007 moves to the back of the cabinet at the end of the year)
Investments - each company with year in it's own folder i.e. "Fidelity - 2007" then that file moves into the Fidelity folder at the back at the end of the year
Pay Stubs - usually moves into the tax folder for the year
Taxes - 2007 - folders for me and hubby
This makes my filing easy for me, it took me about 2 hours to rearrange things and complete a few months of filing (not much, since it's bills and paystubs). Now it takes only 2 minutes to do a month of filing, whoppee!
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4 comments:
I have a similar system which works well when I actually use it. My problem is that I have a sort of "catch all" file in a kitchen cupboard. I put things that need to be filed in this file in the kitchen because the file cabinet is upstairs. I figure I'll file it when it gets full, but usually it's about twice a year when I can't cram a thing more into it that the stuff actually gets filed or shredded. I just need to get rid of my "catch all" file and force myself to take the stuff upstairs!
Ok, I'm now inspired! I'm going to clean out my catch all file right now!
Sounds wonderful! There's nothing like a nicely organized filing system. Thank you for sharing your WFMW tip!
Great idea! Thank you for sharing =)
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