Six days a week we are given a mailbox full of bills, statements, ads, credit card offers, you name it. Five days a week you may have kids handing you assignments, school forms, or classroom schedules. It’s easy to just keeping throwing these papers in a pile to deal with later, but you’re left with a mess of paperwork on the kitchen counter, on the desk in your home office, or on the table in the foyer. All those documents add up fast, and it can be difficult to take the time to sort it out and clear the paper clutter laying around your home.

You’ll need a binder for the following categories…

And for those of us with kids…

This filing method makes sorting papers effortless. I love that I’m never trapped in the home office in front of a filing cabinet. Imagine sitting down to file taxes next year and only needing to flip through a binder to find the information you need. You can even get three ring hole punches that fit right inside the binders. Go ahead—ditch the filing cabinet and tackle the paper clutter.