Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional

organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio. I want to help you get your home

organized and help you organize life stages and unexpected events.

So sit back, relax, and let's get organized.

Let's talk about how to sort paper.

Now, I have written a lot of posts on organizing paper.

I have a lot of different products.

And the Sunday basket really is my big go to how do you organize paper use a Sunday basket

But the more I work with clients and I hear the questions that people are asking I decided to really put into a

podcast and into a flow chart how I sort paper. So if you go to Organize

365 and click on the podcast link you'll be able to find the podcast about how to sort paper or just search how to sort paper and

You'll find the free download that I have for sorting paper. It's like I remember when I was kid we had this book that if you were

sick you opened up this flow chart and it was like do you have a fever? Yes. And so

then you followed that arrow down to the yes choices. Are you throwing up yes or no and then you pick yes or no

and then under that it would say has this gone on for more than 24 hours yes or no and

then it'd be like you know go to the doctor immediately or you know it was like

this flow chart that you could go through and of course as a

hypochondriac kid I was like how do I get out of school which it never said don't

go to school it was always like you know take Advil or rush to the emergency room.

There was no middle ground. But this flow chart is kind of the same thing for your paper.

So how to sort paper? So when you sort paper, when you sit down with a big laundry basket full of paper

there are three choices that you can do with that paper your first pass-through.

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