How to Get Your Personal Papers Organized
Have you ever heard one of the basic laws of time management? It’s the number one thing you should do to get a grip on your day. Basically, any task you’re doing will expand to fill the time you’ve allotted to it. If you decided to get rid of clothes that you no longer wear, clean our your garage, or hunker down and get that budget going on paper you have been thinking about: you must send a beginning time and end time to complete a task or you can wind up wasting time. If you set a beginning time and ending time – you’ll tend to work more efficiently and see accomplishments which is motivating to do it again.
Now, there are a lot of great sites that will give you tips on how to clean your kitchen in 10 minutes or how to get your day organized so you do more work and have more family time. We are going to tackle a project that you generally don’t think about until you need it: personal paperwork.
If there’s a fire, natural disaster, or simply need to travel or move your residence – your personal paperwork should be easy to find for all family members when you need it quickly.
Don’t get discouraged or feel overwhelmed
Before you start, set a starting and ending time to get organized. Also, designate times when you won’t be bothered, this includes turning off your cell phone, signing out of social networks, and don’t stop to check email. Depending on how much searching you need to do to pull your important personal paperwork together.
Designate a place for all your personal paperwork
This means getting a small fire-proof safe, lock box, or other type of filing system you deem reliable for your own needs.
What goes in?
Your passport, your birth certificate, passports and birth certificates for family members, rental or mortgage papers, insurance, and photos of your residence for insurance purposes.
You can also include warranties, large purchase receipts, and medical records for yourself and the family.
What if some paperwork can’t be found?
Things get lost or damaged in moves. It happens. You can get copies of your social security cards if you cannot find them. Your insurance company is usually happy to send you anything missing paperwork. And if you need a copy of your birth certificate or you have discovered your passport is set to expire, we can assist you with passport renewal and birth certificate acquisition.
Smart tip : have an extra copy of your birth certificate and one for every family member in a safe place.
Once you get organized, whenever you are given a document, decide immediately if it needs to be placed with your other important paperwork. This will enable you to always be on top of your personal paperwork.