Home Smart Organisation Tips

Home is where the heart is so make it run smoothly and you’ll have more time for loved ones. NoteMaker have a great set of tips to get your bills, school meetings and sports events sorted. Don’t let the home organisation and paper work get on top of you and your family life.

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We all find it hard to make the time to organise our home paperwork when we really want to be spending time with family. However allocating space and having organised procedures can make this task a whole lot easier.

Ensure you have a place to open your mail. This should be in the same place every week and if you can’t find the time as soon as you bring in the mail make sure there is a storage box or allocated place to pop in the unopened mail. Open it as soon as you do find the time!

Once opened sort your mail into bills to pay, mail to action, personal correspondence, and mail to file. We like to keep the bills we need to pay on a clipboard either on a hook in our home office or in a kitchen drawer. Keep them where you will see them regularly and where you will pay them. If you sit down at your office desk to pay your bills keep them there or if you pay them while on the phone at the kitchen table keep the bills nearby.

Once you have popped your bills on a clipboard sort them into due date order and pop these dates in your wall calender or diary. By making use of a calender or diary you will ensure you won’t miss payment on another bill again.

Finally once paid you need to store the paid bills in case of any disputes with the provider. Write on the bill how and when you paid it. Then file it in an appropriate folder or document file. You may keep your yearly bills in a lever arch file or you make keep them in files in a filing cabinet. Make sure you do keep them though as you never know when you may need to look back over them.

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