Monthly Organizing Tips from Simplicity Works

April 2009

Tips and Tricks to Make Life Easier
Celebrate simplicity: the sun returns and tax days is over.

Hi there. This is a quick monthly tip list provided by Molly Boren of Simplicity Works Home and Office Organizing Services. I hope it makes your life a little easier.

Remember: if it takes 2 minutes or less, do it now!
I.e., read this and then file or delete it - wouldn't want
it to become e-clutter...

Do Help Your 4/14/10 Self

Set up 2009's tax files in a handy place. (If you already have, make sure it's handy.) It'll be a ready home for papers that casually wander in all year and suddenly become very important on 4/14. Go simple: 1 file for income statements, 1 for deductible expenses. Subdivide only if you'll have 10+ pages or receipts in a category.

DON'T

Don't Expect to Read Everything

It's impossible. Give reading materials a limit. When they outgrow it, start recycling - no excuses. I'm allowed whatever fits on the tray on my coffee table. When a new magazine doesn't quite fit, it's scary but liberating to grab the oldest ones from the teetering stack, flip through, and toss them into the recycling.

GET

Get a Leg Up on the Post Office

Postage rates go up again on 5/11 (from $0.42 to $0.44 per 1st class letter) - can you believe it? Pick up few books of "forever" stamps before then. Buy a few extra as gifts, thereby showing your friends and family how organized you are.

GIVE

Give Flash-ily

Donate unneeded flash drives to people in developing countries. De-clutter your office while doing some good!Use those old $0.42 stamps to mail them off to the San Francisco non-profit Inveneo, which builds "computer and communications systems in mud-hut villages in Africa and other remote areas" (PC World).

Save 10%	First-time clients: save 10% on your first organizing session when you mention this newsletter. What space or system is holding you back? For a free 30-minute consultation or to book your first session, email Molly@SimplicityWorksOrganizing.com or call 773-915-3537.

Simplicity Works Home + Office Organizing Services conquers overwhelm by helping clients in Chicagoland eliminate clutter and implement personalized and efficient systems for routine tasks. Time, money, and energy are then free for the things that matter most.

Yours truly,
Molly

Molly Boren
Certified Professional Organizer�
SimplicityWorksOrganizing.com
773-915-3537

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