I don't know about you, but I seem to collect stacks and stacks of paper. Receipts, junk mail, grocery lists, credit card bills.
Clutter is frustrating, so why not try to go as paperless as possible?
This article offers a few tips. Though mainly aimed at small businesses, some of this advice can be applied to a home office.
If you choose to store important data in digital form, I recommend a secure site online. That way if anything ever happened to your personal computer, the information would not be lost.
It's important to sort through the piles and figure out what you actually need to keep — maybe for tax purposes. That receipt from Wendy's? Not useful in any way. But before tossing it, check to see if there's personal information that needs to be shredded.
If possible, recycle useless paper.
To cut down the amount of paper, most credit cards and utility services offer paperless bill options. I take full advantage of these — it's so much easier to receive the bill via email and go directly online to pay it. No stamps, no envelopes, no checks.
Hassle free and saving trees. Now if only it were less painful to pay those bills...
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