Hello, everyone and welcome to edit your life, a podcast that helps you edit the unnecessary

from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome. I'm Asha Dornfest, and I'm here

without my co-host, Christine Coe, today because I'm interviewing a very special guest to discuss

today's topic, Busting Through Paper paper clutter, which is pretty much the

thing that I want to talk about most because I'm very excited to tackle this. Paper is the thing

I struggle with most. And I think I've mentioned this in past episodes. I have this tendency to

really lose track of my

incoming mail, the household filing, the paperwork. I just, I find it very hard to keep it

organized and just keep it flowing. And I have this very bad habit of piling it on my desk or

stashing it away or something in a bag and

then saying I'll get to it later. But then I find myself getting anxious about what I fear is in the

pile. And I mean, it's sort of gotten to the point where I've had to actually pay late fees on

tiny little bills because I would forget to pay them or I would miss them in the pile. And it just

doesn't make any sense. And I mean, what's especially weird is that when I gather my wits about me

and open my mail, I usually find an un-cash check. So there's actually a better chance of me

finding money than, you know, a bill or something, something scary in there. So anyway,

it's with this background that you can understand why I'm so excited about, um, about our special

guest today, organizing expert Aaron Doland. Aaron is the organizing columnist for Real Simple

Magazine and she's the editor-in-chief of

Unclutter.com, a website that recently celebrated its ninth birthday.

She's also the author of the new book, Never Too Busy to Cure Clutter.

Welcome, Erin.

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