A personal filing system I've developed over 40-odd years of dedication and practise. I just put everything in the appropriate one of 4 basic files, and Boom. Like the explosion.
Let me know if you've tried it and how it works for you!
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It isn't functional, but it's mine. ❤️
No-fail filing system
File 1: Stuff I'm "working on" "right now"
- Location: top of nightstand, with overflow to top of desk, top of desk chair and top of dining table as necessary
- Contents: current (2014-2023) receipts, projects, reading and leisure, honey-dos, parenting literature, professional development, date ideas, invitations, most recent 2 years' (+/-Covid) gifts and mementos still sticky with guilt or nostalgia
File 2
- Label: Stuff I'll need "later"
- Location: A Safe Place where I JUST saw it yesterday, with overflow to the Bermuda Triangle, various clear and ostensibly visual-storage-friendly containers, the black hole in the exact middle of the floor under the bed, My Piles, the storage locker whose location and key I keep In A Safe Place
- Contents: Things I don't need "now" but am keeping responsibly until it's time to use them between 3 and 21076 days from now
File 3
- Label: Stuff I "knew I had"
- Location: Around, with overflow to available containers and surfaces
- Contents: Stuff I needed "the other day" and carefully made sure to roll over into my 'Stuff I'll need "later"' file but couldn't locate in time and now keep on display in its rendered useless state, as penance, forever
File 4
- Label: Stuff I "already decluttered" and need to rehome before first grader de-rehomes it, again
- Location: between desk and balcony window, with overflow going to moving box we finally emptied 5 years ago (pictured) to use as a fort for the then-toddler, too-high-to-see shelf of hall closet, beside recycling bin, beside hall door, first grader's de-rehoming and fort decomissioning project
- Contents: Stuff I don't need that MIGHT still be usable to someone someday and would be wasteful and harmful to the environment to throw away and socially and financially irresponsible to drop off at Value Village where they'll resell for profit, so I just need to find a place that's exactly like VV to drop it all at or probably if I can post enough of it on FB market place it will all magically disappear at a rate way faster than I can post and arrange pickup
