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Guest Blog Post on Clutter Control Freak!

A few weeks ago I was invited to do a guest post by Eva Wallace over at Clutter Control Freak, the organizing blog associated with Stacks and Stacks.  Stacks and Stacks is an online catalogue of organizing solutions, and I’ve often found that they have obscure products I just can’t find anywhere else.  I was [...]

ADD and Filing: Taming the Paper Tiger — Part III

Just to bring you up to speed on my filing adventure, I have cleaned the Agean Stables sorted through two years worth of papers, and I have determined that I have some categories that are huge precarious stacks of paper, and others that are a single sheet.  I’ve dealt with my biggest category already — [...]

ADD and Filing: Taming the Paper Tiger; Part II — The Sort

Greetings, Chaos Demons, and welcome to the second installment of my series on Taming the Paper Tiger — how to create a filing system that works with your ADHD.

I’ve never had a functioning filing system before, and setting it up is proving to be more emotionally challenging than I thought.  As I mentioned yesterday, I [...]

ADD and Filing: Taming the Paper Tiger; Part I — Talking Myself Down

OK, Chaos Demons, this is the moment of truth.  I am going to test my organizational skills with the ultimate challenge.  I’m about to attack my filing cabinet.

Here's where I dumped all the papers from my old file cabinet — the pile on my kitchen table.

So far, here are the steps I [...]