As you’ve probably figured out, I am not a naturally organized person. I’m not even an un-naturally unorganized person. I am what some might call a “work in progress.”
One thing that helped me to keep our household paper under control was to create a household binder. Now, this isn’t a beautifully organized binder like you’ll see on other blogs. Those binders are wonderful, and so fun to look at, and I love them. However, mine is…functional.
I used an old binder we had hanging around the house, and I bought a bunch of sheet protectors. When we had new bills coming in, I would pay it first (!), and then put it in a sheet protector and put the sheet protector in my binder. Then, I would find out if there was a way to go paperless for statements, and sign up for that to reduce future paper clutter.
I also print out recipes that I use a lot and put them in the binder. Because they are in sheet protectors, I don’t have to worry about them getting messy when I’m cooking.
I don’t put the bills and recipes in in a certain order, but I do try to keep them separate from each other.
And that’s it! Simple, but very useful. If I need information about a bill or vendor, I’m able to find it easily. If I want to use a certain recipe, I can find it without having to look it up on my phone or my computer. It’s really saved me a lot of time.
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