Hi Linda L., Welcome to JFC. I am so glad that you are enjoying the posts. This is a very wonderful bunch of ladies who will spur you on to victory. We all know about the paper clutter monster. We all fight it. When I first started to deal with paper clutter years ago, a friend came over to help me set up files, or so she thought. We worked together all day long for over six hours each. A total of almost 13 hours combined and I still had paper clutter to deal with. I made a vow then that I would not let it get that out of hand ever again. So far I haven't. But I do still have paper clutter, we all do. One thing that has helped me is on my way back into the house from the mailbox I will stop by the outside garbage can and throw away any junk mail that has come. Also if you will deal not only with the junk mail as it comes in everyday, but put the rest of the mail you are keeping in its rightful place. Then grab a handful of mail from the stacks you have and deal with it each day you will eventually get it all taken care of. We take baby steps around here. We might work for 30 minutes and then do something we enjoy for 30 miutes. This really does work and you will see results. I hope this helps.
Sherry in FL (whose husband use to live in Mesa, AZ) On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 03:49:46 -0700 "Linda Leverance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Everyone! > > I have thoroughly enjoyed reading all of your posts and they've > really > been encouraging! You gals are really great and so supportive of one > another. This group is exactly what I need to be accountable. I hope > to > post whenever my schedule permits. My name is Linda Leverance and > I've > lived for the past 15 years in Mesa, AZ. We moved here from > Wisconsin. > I'm married to a very special person (he even throws his dirty > laundry > right into the basket in the utility room closet and wipes the top > of > the sink and faucet when he washes his hands!!) We'll be celebrating > our > 29th.anniversary in April and have 5 daughters ranging in age from > almost 21 to 27 years old. Three of them are married and the other 2 > are > living on their own. We now own an EMPTY NEST!!! > > I'm a former elementary schoolteacher turned Real Estate Consultant. > I > taught for 3 years, then stayed home full time for almost 20 years. > Nine > years ago I got my real estate license. I enjoy real estate, but > because > of the stressful situations that sometimes happen I wanted to find > something fun to do when I wasn't doing real estate that would end > up in > me also making some money. Figuring that someday (hopefully in the > next > couple of years) my married daughters would be having kids, I joined > a > home based company called Discovery Toys in December and really like > it. > > > Now, the PROBLEM that I need your help with.....I have a guest room > and > office whose only guest right now is papers everywhere!!! With the > time > it takes running 2 businesses, I've let things get terribly messy. I > absolutely must get all my real estate stuff ready for my accountant > by > March 15th. and, thankfully, 80-90% of it is in a file folder on my > desk. It's the other 10-20% of it that's causing me fits right now. > I > have so much paperwork piled in stacks in our guest room and in my > office it's not even funny. I used to be truly organized and still > am > pretty much so, except for the paper! Oh, what trauma just to think > about it! It all began when our first daughter got married over 5 > years > ago. I got into the bad habit of piling papers up because I was busy > with work and trying to help my daughter plan her wedding. I guess > it > got to be a bad habit that still continues. > > I do feel good just knowing that there are others like myself out > there. > I know you'll be a real help to me in getting all this paper under > control. Thanks for letting me share. > > ~Linda > Mesa, AZ > > > > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > Journey from clutter List Website > http://journeyfromclutter.com > Members Only Page > http://journeyfromclutter.com/MembersOnly/MembersArea.htm > > Unsubscribe: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the 'Subject:' field to be removed from the main > list. > > To Unsubscribe from the Digest version of the list send the > unsubscribe message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.; *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Journey from clutter List Website http://journeyfromclutter.com Members Only Page http://journeyfromclutter.com/MembersOnly/MembersArea.htm Unsubscribe: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in the 'Subject:' field to be removed from the main list. To Unsubscribe from the Digest version of the list send the unsubscribe message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
