Posted 2014-04-01 10:11 PM Subject: Best method for ORGANIZING? (important life stuff)
Money Eating Baggage Owner
Posts: 9586 Location: Phoenix
I need to get my life paperwork organized (like important documents). Pinterest has great ideas, but it comes down to these two ideas : a binder, using those protective sheets for documents, or a plastic bin with file folder organizers. I can't decide!! What works for you? Right now everything's in shoeboxes and SOMETHING must be done.
Posted 2014-04-01 10:25 PM Subject: RE: Best method for ORGANIZING? (important life stuff)
Rad Dork
Posts: 5218 Location: Oklahoma
I like the binders. For me it's easier when I'm in a hurry to find something... and I usually am. And I feel more confident if I'm trying to travel with them vs. file folders. I hate file folder organizers. They're good for storage, but I'm not crazy about looking thru them. I like tabs on a binder better than tabs on a file folder box.
Posted 2014-04-02 12:39 AM Subject: RE: Best method for ORGANIZING? (important life stuff)
The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW
I keep all of our papers in a binder - in our FIREPROOF safe. BUT I also keep COPIES of the most important ones (birth certs. and ss cards) folded in ziplock baggies HIDDEN near every major exit of our house in case I might need them in an emergency such as a fire when I need to just get OUT, but may need identification in the aftermath - like if somebody is injured. These copies are on PINK paper and could never be passed as originals. I have the baggies hidden in frames or books or other things that can be grabbed easily and gotten into later.
Posted 2014-04-02 2:24 PM Subject: RE: Best method for ORGANIZING? (important life stuff)
Poor Cracker Girl
Posts: 12150 Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL
Important papers get scanned and saved electronically first as PDFs on a portable hard drive and backed up in Dropbox or Google Drive. I may lose the original but I can print off a copy in no time. Then the papers get filed in the filing cabinet at home. My father-in-law gave us this massive office filing cabinet when he closed his office and all the junk goes in there. I have a couple of categories but I'm too impatient to actually use them. I tend to just stack stuff in there. When I need something, I'm much more likely to go to the electronic version rather than schlep upstairs and look in the filing cabinet.
Stuff that I need to carry with me (horse paperwork) is in a binder in the truck for traveling.
Best method for ORGANIZING? (important life stuff)
