Konmari Part 3: Papers

This past weekend I had time to work on my next phase of the "Konmari" experiment. After the clothes and the books come the "papers". Mari Kondo recommends getting rid of everything, although I love this in principle I just don't know that it is always practical. She says that if you have to keep paperwork make sure it is important. I personally interpreted this as, tax related, class/degree planning, warranties, proof of registration for cars and dogs, and financial records of certain types.

The before mess, you will notice the various holders and bag of looseleaf paper and other recyclables.

One of my favorite things about this little project is that when I'm done cleaning out a certain category I always have enough less that I can find nice, neat ways to put everything I keep away. This time I kept one of those folder-fulls worth of paperwork, I know that sounds like a lot but I got rid of over 2 folders worth. It now all fits into my single file drawer (see below). 

This is deceptive, at least half of this is work related stuff that I need to keep for that.

My next task is Miscellaneous Items. Since mine and Tom's movie and music collection has been integrated I'm not sure how many of those I'll be able to clear out, but I'm hoping that if I can clean out some of the random electronic odds and ends as well as random collections of boxes I can at least move the music/movie case collection into a closet and free up some space on a wall or two for some of Tom's hangable collections of things. I have to admit that I'm loving this process of cleaning junk out.

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