I was under the impression the tax rule was ten- phew! I looked it up after the video to confirm. I am so glad you relayed this info! Less for me to sort and maintain!

That table is what im left with after 3 years of decluttering. 😢 I used to keep my high school things, my late mom's things. My siblings things,my 3 kids things, my old jobs things nd my past businesses things. Hhhmmmm, is this what healing feels like?❤

Happy Mother’s Day 💐💐💐💐💐💕🙋‍♀️

Progress is progress 🎉 you are human so it’s ok. I’m glad you still shared this because it shows your integrity and determination to declutter and it really helps. Thank you for sharing your journey ❤🙏🙋‍♀️

Hi. First of all I pray your surgery was successful and that you have a better than expected recovery response to the surgery. And YES. 🎉 when you are able, please do let us know how you are feeling Sending you lots of positive vibes and healing ❤️‍🩹 light. Looking forward to seeing you.

Thank you for this video! It really inspired me to continue to tackle the paper clutter in my home!

If it doesn’t matter because everything is online or can easily be replaced with a phone call, why not just dump everything in the shredder? That would save a lot of time, Yes?

I enjoyed your video a lot. It gave me the motivation to get rid off all that paper I have in our file cabinets that need to go. No need to keep records of bills paid in 2018 😂

If you accidentally delete a file, you can retrieve it with apps that can undelete files. The faster you do it, the more likely it can be saved. When you delete a file.. it is not erased. The file system just marks the space as free space. If you can get to it before the system decides to overwrite it, you can save it. There are even people who can bring it back after it has been overwritten. That is why people physically destroy hard drives instead of just throwing them away.

Me watching your video. That I already watched & liked a year ago, while surrounded by papers that I am part-way through decluttering. Don’t judge me either 😂

Not only were the paperwork on thentable, but they are vulnerable business papers, not a good feeling to have your dirty laundry on the table.

Thank you for this video. I am motivate to go through my papers.

ARIES!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

New subscriber. Love the intro 😂😂😂. Thank you for sharing your ideas.

❤your authenticity. Thank you 🙏

Thank you 🙏. Just subscribed to your channel. You are brilliant and brave 🎉❤. Thank you. Going to try your system. I’m liking how you described “ how you have “meetings” with yourself and your binder/command station. Awesome. I’ll keep you posted. Thank you again ❤

Thank you for sharing your experience with paper clutter. I have several decades I'm currently processing. My spouse purchased a scanner that has been helpful for keeping important/useful items. Would you mind sharing how long it took you to go through everything once you started taking action? Thanks again! 🙂

I don’t find watching you at all helpful. Where is the advice … plllleeeaaassseee!

Excellent content and hilarious delivery! New subscriber. ❤️ 🥰🤗

I love the "rustic" planning! I never thought about using that word for my planning system! I use a pocket DayTimer since I only have to plan mostly for myself. In my business, I use my Google Calendar for events. I notate in my DayTimer a time and keyword only (6pm performance). This reminds me to look at my Google Calendar for more info. I must consciously stop to add a note in my planner, so I don't forget. Sometimes I get a phone call, and I'm driving. I'll pull over to the next safe area and jot down essential information from the call. It's a work in progress! Thanks for sharing! ~ Alex

Just found you channel! Yay! I've a long history of paper clutter anxiety. My late husband, known for hoarding would not let me throw anything away. After he passed away I went threw boxes and boxes of paper. Some from the 1970's!! Yes we were married 50 years. Now I am 95% organized. I can live with it. I feel liked I betrayed him sometimes, but I just could not live like that anymore.

That was so cute! Full of information. I’ve dumped 3 bags of paper, already. Taxes- I’ve been audited n approved now 2013-2020. That makes sense 7 years. Kool! So I can trash these papers?! ??? Mtg . Papers. Bank still questions me - in prepaid at the monthly payment. They re checked there entry so they say. Should I try to prove my point? Or accept there errors, of judgement. They lost to certified. Bank checks . To date they corrected. Except I’ve yet to hear them say why did you pay? And you didn’t take the don’t pay this month? Cause! The bank expects full payment or they charge interest n late fees . Oh they even took out insurance on my account without my knowing While I Had cover age!

Oopsie Tax Good one!

It's nice to see more videos coming! You are very well-spoken and have great content.

I just found your channel and just subscribed..Im an office supply nerd, and have a HARD time getting rid of papers. I just found lots of old stuff that is already in the trash can outside 🙌 I was wondering how to stay on top of all this, and your suggestion for annual maintenance is pure gold, thank you! 😀 👍

Well after opening this wardrobe after 2 years- we managed to get rid of 50% of papers went in the recycling bin n the rest was shredded then burnt- oh my felt much better.

I just found you and I love it! I’m doing all the same purging and you are local to me! Keep posting because it’s very motivating to turn on while I’m going through my stuff. 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

Did you just recycle all your papers or shred them? When I lived in Florida, I burned them in my fireplace, now that I live in Massachusetts, no fireplace. Some things I don’t want people to see (legal papers my my deceased husband fighting for custody of his deceased son for example-last paper filed was in 1995!) but those donʼt need to be seen. They are currently in two four inch binders. In MY ADHDness, I have left them because I donʼt know what to do with them. My office shredder would burn out about the time I do. Ideas, anyone?

Do you bag & dump or shred all you are throwing away?

Light make up looks sooo good on you! 🥰

I don’t feel so lonely NOW that I know someone else has 25 years of paper clutter. I think about it ALL the time. So ALL the time that I stop enjoying myself.

If your goal had been to exercise every second day you would have met your goal.

50% of days doing exercise is better than zero. Well done !

My takeaway from the video...systems are great if you use them. I love the way you edit. Jumping from you to you. I am sincere in this comment.

Once you finish decluttering what are your videos going to be about? I say this with respect. I think you have some original content to get out into the world.

The idea of going through the papers annually. This is a revelation to me too. It doesn’t really matter which month of the year. Great video.

I am currently FINALLY going through papers I have stored for YEARS in rented storage, moved several states south, taken from East Coast to West Coast then back again then back again AGAIN, then through 3 more residences before sitting untouched while self-isolating through 2+ years of pandemic IN THE SAME ROOM. Yes; this has been growing and been added to since the last century. So am I using the Marie Kondo method? NO. Before Marie Kondo was even an adult, I had planned to pull it all out and sort through it in one go...but never did. Over the years I could never get myself to start. The closest I came to starting was buying 3 large bins to sort into. The plan was to sort into 3 categories: -Essential Originals: Certified & official documents, like birth certificates, marriage licenses, car titles, education/training certifications, etc; also anything that should go into a Memory Box, like children's drawings, awards, etc. Those would be filed. -Necessary Data: Documents containing data I may need to retrieve at a later point. Those would be scanned and saved on an exterior hard drive and replicated on a backup hard drive (I lost data on an exterior hard drive that failed and was professionally unrecoverable). If the data can be obtained digitally, then scanning won't be required, just downloading. After scanning/downloading, the sensitive data would be destroyed through shredding and recycling. -Sensitive Useless: Unnecessary documents containing sensitive info. Basically, anything with identifying info on it or financial info, etc. Those would be shredded and recycled. -Straight trash would go directly to recycling. Very ambitious. TOO ambitious. The pile was too high, the work daunting, and I could never gird my loins well enough to dig into it. I currently live in a studio apartment which is bisected by what I call my "Box Canyon"; you have to pass through a 6ft high stack of bins & boxes on the right and a 4ft stack on the left to pass from the apartment entrance & kitchen into the combination living room & bedroom. I spent all pandemic staring at this monster as it mocked me and sapped my will to wrestle it down. So? Well, Marie Kondo (and me, too) were wrong about how to kill a monster pile this big. I am finding it works better to take it in bites. They say the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time; it's the relentlessness that takes it down and eliminates it. Well, I am finding progress pulling out a box or a bag or a portion of a bin at a time and going through it. I'm seeing floor. I'm seeing heights shorten. I'm making my way through. So, is Marie Kondo wrong about pulling the entire problem out all at once to confront and resolve it in one go? Yeah. At least as far as paperwork goes. The One-Bite-At-A-Time method is working for me. I may not do it every day, but as long as I do it at least once a week, the piles will disappear.

I just threw papers away from 17 years ago 😵‍💫🥴 My decluttering was inspired by The Minimal Mom. Now your video was recommended to me

Now THIS is a REAL paper decluttering video!!!!!

Just seeing it scares me

I had several large plastic totes of miscellaneous papers. Kept 8 years of tax returns, and threw away/shredded the rest! Now I shred as soon as stuff I don’t need comes in the house , or at least weekly!!!!

I love skin care declutters. Wait, am I fictitious?

Thanks!

In 2018, after my husband's passing, my daughter was using his computer and said, "I can't close the filing cabinet." My files were also stuffed. Enter Freedom Filer. Setting up the system took time and paying for the labels took money, but this was an excellent investment. I took 12 bags of shredded material out of the cabinets such as info on cars we no longer owned and tax returns from 25 years ago. Ten years is my limit. If it's older than that and it's not sentimental, out it goes.

Hope you show the mess on the floor where you are tossing stuff lol

Have Trump come in and pack your paperwork up for you. Problem solved! 😉

I'm so glad to hear that there is someone else who doesn't agree with the Marie Kondo method. If I pull everything out, I will get overwhelmed (and bored) and it will take forever to get back to it. Case in point: we had the whole interior of our house painted in August. I am still putting away things that were thrown in closets that weren't going to be painted. So many closets that were decently organized are now overwhelmed with clutter that I just didn't know what to do with and had to shove at the last minute. I work part-time so I have plenty of time to go through it but it is so overwhelming and it is not getting done in any great hurry.

I have found that if I keep it out of sight, I worked on it less. When it was in my face, I worked harder

I am going through so many papers at a time. I would get soooo overwhelmed with all of that at once. Routine maintenance is so important. I am working on.

I had an idea this morning. While I walk my dog, (who does a lot of sniffing and stopping), I actually did some upper body moves and lateral leg moves along with dips.