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Sort out your mail – go to the source

No, I don’t mean go to the post office. There’s absolutely nothing they can do about your clutter problems! When I talk about the source of your mail problems I’m talking about when it comes in through your door and lands on the floor.

This is the start of all your mail problems and I’m a firm believer that if you can deal with something at the source then you should do it.

It’s much better than dealing with it when it becomes piles and piles of clutter in the rest of your house

If you run your business from home, and even if you don’t, this is a good idea for you to follow to help in decluttering the overall paperwork that you get, right at the source.

Most of us probably have a table or a counter of sorts where we deposit our mail as soon as we, or it, comes in the door. It’s also true that we give it a cursory glance through first to see what came in the post today.

This is where you can help with your decluttering, because what we would normally do after looking through the mail is to either dump it back on the table, or to take it with us deeper into the house and then find a conveniently empty spot and dump it there instead.

Here it will languish until you remember that you had mail, or until you go hunting for that bill you remember seeing which says that if you don’t pay up, your phone privileges will be revoked and you will be thrown back to the dark ages.

It’s also true that when you skim through the post that first time that you take in what it is and whether it’s personal or whether it’s an official letter.

This is why you remember even days later that you actually did get that phone bill…you just can’t find it now.

To help with this I came up with the perfect solution to all my troubles, and maybe it can help you as well. It started out with a shoebox. It was a nice shoebox so I kept it on the table in the foyer.

Whenever the mail came, or I stepped all over it when I got back home, I would glance through it and then drop my office mail into the shoebox and keep my other mail on the table.

This saved me a lot of time and effort and anyway it had to be done, otherwise I would have very soon found myself bankrupt having lost all my clients because I didn’t receive, or rather lost, my mail!

This system then kind of naturally progressed to my having two shoeboxes, labeled of course. One was for the office mail, and the other one was for bills and things like that.

Personal mails were the ones I opened first anyway so they stayed on the hall table or traveled with me.

I found that having the ability to sort out all my mail as it comes is a bonus and I have built myself my own little empire of shoeboxes.

Actually, I was just kidding there. I went trawling through the stores one day until I found the perfect thing to sort my mail into, and it also matched my hall décor.

It was a small wooden treasure chest which I ingenuously converted into my mail sorter, by inserting thin wooden partitions myself.

Whenever I look through the mail now, I open the lid of the chest and put the mail into the various (named) slots.

It’s easy to do, it’s good to look at, no one really knows what I use it for unless I tell them, and it helps to keep the clutter down to a minimum.

You don’t need to go looking around for a wooden chest, anything that you can lay your hands on, probably from the stuff you already have lying about your house, will do for the moment.

What you want to do right now, is to cultivate the habit of sorting your mail out right at the source. If you wait until you find the perfect box, or mail sorting unit, you will find that your good intentions have waylaid you.

You will forget all about it and keep to your old ways of putting your mail anywhere. So start now the way that I did, and use any old thing that comes to hand.

Go looking for something else if you find that this method works for you, but do it at a later date, after you get actually get things going!

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