Organizing A Mail Center

Remember this mail center project I told you about? I went to the store today to buy what I needed for it, and spent a couple of hours sorting through the pile of papers that was threatening to completely bury me alive. Before the project, a large chunk of my kitchen counter space looked like this:

And now it looks like (drum roll please)...THIS:

Yahoo!!

I admit, we already had a system in place for dealing with our incoming paper clutter, but it just wasn't working (as you can see from the "before" picture). As I was setting up this new system, I was thinking about what makes it different and why I think it will work where the other one did not. I think this is key...location, location, location. Our old system is based out of our office (a logical place, you would think). But the office is not where the school papers and mail is brought when it comes in the house. The kitchen is.

I think that changing our behavior to sort the mail into these folders will be a much easier and livable transition than changing our behavior to take it into a different room and sort it. How lazy can we be, eh?!

Now to tackle my drawer...