Incoming Mail

The mail is delivered six times a week and there is never a delivery day that you don't receive SOMETHING... bills, advertisements, cards and letters, news and information, credit card offers and more, and more, and more junk mail.

Set up a recycling center conveniently located on your way into your house from the mailbox. This should include a recycling bin, a trash bin, and a shredder and a letter opener.

First, if you aren't even considering purchasing something or applying for that credit card, you don't even have to open the envelope; just put it right through the shredder. You can open all of the other mail and put the envelopes and inserts into the recycling bin or shredder, these things don't even need to come into your house.

Now you have only the items that are worthy of your time and it probably amounts to a fraction of the original bundle that you pulled out of the mailbox in the first place.

Consider removing yourself from junk mail lists:

Register with the Direct Marketing Associations's Mail Preference Service: http://www.dmaconsumers.org/ or call 212-768-7277

Simply ask to be removed from each individual company by writing a note on the materials and mailing it back to them.

To be removed from receiving credit card offers: 1-800-567-8688 (the recording will ask for your social security number, full name, address and telephone number).

Mail list brokers:

Polk Company 1-800-464-7655 (ask for the Polk Opt-Out line)

Experiean 1-800-228-4571 ext. 4633

Getting Started

Well, this is an appropriate topic for my first blog post. Usually getting started is the most difficult part of any project, whether that is starting an organizing project or starting a blog. I have procrastinated on this long enough and finally someone told me to just sit down and start typing. So here it is, my first blog post.

I suggest you do the same thing if you have been putting off that organizing project. Just walk over to the that shelf or filing cabinet and pick up one item. Make a decision - file it or put it where it belongs, create a home for it, or release it. Then pick up another...

I want this blog to be a place where you can Ask the Organizer! If you have a question about anything organizing related, ask it here and I will post my response so everyone can learn. If you don't want to post directly to the blog, you can send me an email and I will post it for you (you remain annonymous). If you have something to add to someone elses organizing question, speak up. We can all learn from one another. kathy@ProjectPartnerServices.com