<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_p6E-n3zXKTE/SXkzSyZfTLI/AAAAAAAAAPw/OF5tjO6SXWY/s1600-h/Filing.jpg"><img style="width:320px;cursor:hand;height:241px;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_p6E-n3zXKTE/SXkzSyZfTLI/AAAAAAAAAPw/OF5tjO6SXWY/s320/Filing.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-size:78%;">Photo courtesy of </span><a href="http://www.bmmi.us/"><span style="font-size:78%;">Peter <span class="blsp-spelling-error">Skadberg</span></span></a><br /><br /><br />Moving into a new home creates lots of opportunities to re-organize. Because it is the start of a new year I've decided to tackle my paper files.<br /><br /><br />I love to organized…repeat… <strong>I LOVE TO ORGANIZE</strong>, so this is an exciting task for me! I'll be tackling next week (once I can get a refill for our <span class="blsp-spelling-error">Labeler</span>!) If you wanted to follow along with me I'll be posting some guidelines here and tips to make organizing your paperwork easier.<br /><br /><br />But first I have to decide … Should I change my ways??<br /><br /><br />I've been searching around the Blog world to see if there is an easier way to file paperwork. I'm so tired of having so much paper around!<br /><br /><br /><strong>Option #1:</strong><br />I've realized that most of my bills I pay online also store my statements online, so why should I keep them here? So that would mean that I don't have to keep credit card statements, bank statements, cell phone, phone or electric bills. <span class="blsp-spelling-error">Hmmm</span>… That kind of makes me nervous, lets move on to option 2<br /><br /><br /><strong>Option #2:</strong><br />File monthly. Instead of having a file for each individual bill file each bill monthly. All bills paid in January get filed in a "January Bills" file. That way if I need a bill I can just find it in the month that it was paid. This would make filing time so much easier!<br /><br /><br /><strong>Option #3: </strong><br />Keep filing the way I did last year. I usually file like bills in a single file folder. For example all of our credit card statements go in one file folder, "Credit Cards" instead of having a folder for each individual credit card company. All of our utilities (phone, electric, gas etc) go in one general "<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Utilities</span>" folder. (photos to come)<br /><br /><br /><strong>Share how you file your paperwork</strong>. What system do you use, if any. Do you still have piles of filing to do from last year? <strong>Leave a comment</strong> below and share you tips!</div>