Mountain of Papers
Posted by Robyn Lee in Just me on Thursday, March 24, 2011 7:44 PM
I hate filing.
I’ve hated it since I was a summer intern working at a corporate office. I remember the paper cuts, the sore back, and the endless piles ...
When I got my first real job I thought: “now I’m a full-time employee. I won’t have to do any busy work.”
Boy, was I wrong. Not only did I have to file, but I was in charge of filing for the entire department!
I remember collecting the files from each desk and then dropping the papers on the floor in front of the file cabinets.
I would get down on my hands and knees (yeah, try doing that in a skirt) and then I would file for hours. (Hmm ... in hindsight, maybe if I did this task more often it wouldn’t have been so bad.)
When I got my job working in publishing I found that there was less filing to do because most of the files were emailed and stored digitally. We still had file cabinets and lots to file, but a spunky co-worker named Vivian did most of the filing and she kept the cabinets very neat. She was proud of her organized file cabinets and if you went into the drawers to get a file, she would watch you like a hawk. (No wonder the auditors praised her every year).
The digital age has certainly cut down on our paper waste, but not completely. We still get tons of junk mail, bills, bank statements, political postcards, etc.
I do my best to keep my house in order — I am by no means a Vivian — but I find the hardest thing to keep organized is the stuff that comes from the mailbox.
I have piles of mail all over my house. Even as I type this post I have a stack of bills sitting on my desk, staring at me.
There is a pile of mail on my bedside table, there is a stack of new mail on the coffee table. Piles everywhere I look!
My aversion to filing is coming back to haunt me.
I have tried many filing systems in the past, I even bought a cute file cabinet because I thought its beauty would motivate me. That worked for a little while, but then I discovered that the mailman keeps bringing mail. Alas, the piles of mail returned.
Help! How do you organize your bills or even personal letters? What is your filing system for the mail?
I’m off to get the mail ... maybe I should just leave it in the box.
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