Homestead Mama | 
11 30th, 2007| 
The paper in my house is driving me crazy. We have paper still sitting in the fax machine, paper piling up next to the fax machine, paper on the floor, paper on the desk, paper on the kitchen counter.
Taming the paper mess in our house has become a major obstacle. There are several factors leading to the paper problem….. all of them attributable to our lifestyle choices, I guess.
- We homeschool – so we produce mountains of paper in the form of their projects.
- We work from home – running more than one business – and projects besides. These activities produce an astronomical amount of bills, invoices, work orders, time cards. AARRGG!!!
- Mail. We get an unreal amount of mail. See above.
- We are procrastinators. I’m not exactly sure about how this is connected to the unreal amount of paper in our house but I know it is.
Steps must be taken to tame this mess before we are buried alive. What is to be done?
- A shredder was purchased last week. That is helping. We shred the paper and mix it with some of the animals bedding. It will serve a purpose and turn to compost eventually.
- I pay 70% of the bills online – but I need to take that extra step to pay all of them online – and select paperless bills wherever possible.
- We have always made use of both sides of the paper when ever possible. If a paper is no longer needed, we line through the used side to signal that it is okay for that paper to be used as scrap. It then goes into a bin – and the kids will use that paper for scratch paper, art, etc.
This still doesn’t seem to accomplish much. This is the result of just a few days worth of paperwork:
What else can be done? Help! I am drowning in paper.
