#sorting papers

[thirtysixsquaremeters]

Ias organizes her papers and things.

After sorting out folders and magazines, I was still left with a huge amount of notebooks and papers.

I managed to sort it all into a number of categories, one for just papers, one for stuff I was going to put into storage, two for notebooks that I need to look through, and two for empty notebooks that I am promising myself I will use up before I go buy new ones.

It was at this time that I realized I wouldn’t finish before February did. So, I decided that I was going to sort the papers, because that seemed like the most crucial. The other stuff I put in two different boxes, and I hope to be able to look through maybe a couple of notebooks per week to throw things out, decide what to keep etc etc.

Sorting papers I did however. The first pile is before I started, the second pile is the size of it once I had thrown away stuff I wasn’t going to keep, and the third is divided into two categories, one for storage because I might want it, ad one that will go into my binder, because I might need it soon. Some of that last is study papers I’m not currently needing, bills, receipts, current projects etc etc.

Overall, pretty happy with what I accomplished, I filled my entire recycling bin, and I do feel more organized, despite not getting as far as I would’ve wanted this month.

[thirtysixsquaremeters]

Ias organizes her papers and things.

The second thing to sort where those folders of different types, but also some smaller thinner notepads and loose sheets of paper. 

I used this big paper organizer to put everything put the paper folders in, and it swelled to as thick as it could get, so I might consider taking something out, but we’ll see.

It fit all neatly into my bottom desk drawer where I planned six months ago I would put it but never got around to...

[thirtysixsquaremeters]

Ias organizes her papers and things

So, the first thing I began working on was magazines. As you can see in the first picture, there was quite a lot...

I started, of course, with dividing it up, into 1. magazines I still liked to read for certain topics, 2. comic books. 3. magazines I had saved for specific inspiration.

Part of the third category was a bunch of magazines where the only thing I was really interested in was floorplans of houses, so I actually tore those out, and threw away the rest of the magazine.

In the final shot, I had four categories. One for putting in storage because I know I’m not going to read it in the next six months, one for keeping as reading material in the apartment, one for the tore out pages that I’m going to file properly, and one that I’m giving away to charity because who knows someone might buy it.

[thirtysixsquaremeters]

Ias organizes her papers and things

The final organisation project for February (which, sadly, I did not finish, but I did bite off more than I could chew), was to sort papers, notebooks and notepads, folders and all of that stuff.

Like always, a huge project like this has to begin with some sort of initial sorting, but I honestly couldn’t tell you what the categories were except the pile with the red thing on top closest to the camera is folders of different types, and the pile in the middle is magazines. To some extent, the rest is sorted into papers that need to be looked through, and notebooks that need to be looked through, but this was just an initial sorting, and its purpose was to give me somewhere to start.

[clownkushu]

Well I got through my stuff in an hour. I’m amazed it didn’t take longer. I’m now going to go reward myself with some Batman The Brave and the Bold.

[conoscereilperche-blog]

I have so many papers that aren't at all important but have little things scribbled on them that I want to keep/follow through on...like one that had the lyrics scribbled on it of this song that I heard and liked on WQAC...now I can throw that scrap away...