Allison Cafe

Someone once said that a cluttered desk leads to a cluttered mind. While I have always been one of those people to make piles and function well in that environment, it has gotten to a point in which our home office just makes me feel anxious with all its clutter.

I have made it my mission this week to become better organized.

Making a plan

First, I will tackle the paper. With a productive, yet costly, trip to the Container Store and Big Lots, I returned to our home office equipped to whip our paper lives into shape. I am realizing as I sift through years of filed bank statements, pay stubs, photos, receipts and a lot of other paper that we seem to “need”, I am beginning to feel lighter with every bag of paper I recycle. Why do we hold onto so many useless pieces of paper? Sure, some of it we really may need someday, such as tax related documents from the last 7 years. But other pieces of paper, like every pay stub I have ever received, just seem unnecessary. (more…)