A stress-free guide to organizing important paperwork

Life Kit

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The paper of life — birth certificates, tax information, medical records and other important documents — all have to go somewhere. But keeping track of all these files and actually organizing them can feel like a headache. Professional organizer Kacy Paide walks through how to get started, what to toss and how to make a system that you'll actually stick to in moments of stress.

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0:32.3	Hey, everybody, it's Mariel.
0:34.3	All right, question.
0:35.5	Just between you and me.
0:37.1	You got a paper pile? Yeah, we've all got a paper pile, a stack of mail and bills and forms you've been meaning to fill out, and old to-do lists and discarded post-its. I've got three of these piles right now, actually. Someone please send help.
0:54.1	I am Casey Pady, and I have
0:56.6	been a professional organizer since 2001. I started right out of college. My true love is helping
1:04.3	people declutter their paper and make sense of it. Oh, thank God. Casey says a lot of people
1:09.3	end up with files like this. And in many cases, her clients
1:12.2	get stuck, right? They don't even start trying to get the files under control because they feel like
1:16.8	the goal is a perfectly beautiful space, an untouched space, you know, an immaculately organized
1:23.7	desktop, not a paper in sight. The goal is that if somebody comes into my house, it should look like nobody even lives here.
1:30.3	But I feel like what people want more than space is a sense of control and mastery over their domain.
1:39.3	People really want to be able to find what they need when they need it.
1:42.3	So I always tell my clients,
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