You know all that paperwork form school

[Beetroot]

Well with four kids and choir it is never ending - what shoud i do iwth it to make me efficient? At present it all goes in a pile and then gets forgotten

they go to playgroup!! both of them on differnt days needing different stuff

I have to organise

oliveoil I see your three ring binders, and raise them to six Viking transfer files, four lever arch files, and two A4 ring binders. That is just for this current year.

a folder just HARBOURS CRAP
we need movemtn
In and OUT in and OUT

plus we have three wooden "things to do" filing trays, and I have a "things in progress" pile on the computer desk.

I have clear plastic files to put documents in so I can see them at a glance

EarlSinclair I do do in and out - some stuff needs to sit for a term at a time though

besides which isn't *EarlSinclair" a name-change - do you recycle those - huh, huh?

IN

OUT

IN

OUT

lol meant

splutterd wine over the keyboard at puss

........in boots

I've got 6 kids. what i do is each child has a clear plastic folder attached to the wall, like the ones that have leaflets in them. Whenever stuff from school, invites, club stuff comes home it gets put in each child's own folder, that way I always know where it is. I am learning to be efficient

stop distracting people from a perfectably sensible discussion about filing .

sorry , that was to ES not you Kitty

I have a seperate ringbinders for (1)DD (2)mortgage (3)household bills (4)personal bills (5)seperation info ie solicitor stuff (6)work stuff ie payslips. I'm sure I have more than 6 ringbinders but i rally can't remember what they're for!
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.... doesn't stop me from having a massive pile of paperwork upstairs waiting to be filed plus a pile of paperwork in the kitchen waiting to be sorted/filed/chucked/read

no metal door sorry.

flie and ring binders were starrted but failed to do.

must do though

no metal door sorry.

flie and ring binders were starrted but failed to do.

must do though

I don't know whether you've cracked this yet, Beetroot. Within the last 24 hours .

Occurs to me that you could do with keeping everybody's stuff together, otherwise you'll have to check several different files/boxes/whatevers.

When I worked as a PA I ran a system similar to the calendar pocket one - just a bit bigger! A file for each month, so things are filed according to date, and when August comes round you check to see what's lurking in there. For a home and family (rather than a vicar, LOL) you might need to have this week, next week, then the months.

And then, mainly, make paper recycling your best friend.

I have 0 children and 16 ring binders with everything important filed away and instantly accessable with a moments notice!

• a file systen where i keep all my reciepts garentees, with sections for different majorappliances / different rooms etc so thinsg are easyish to find there too

and then an envelope per year stuffed full of all reciepts where all receipts (except stuff like the odd pint of milk which do get binned) etc go

ooooooh....... 16 ringbinders.....

Wow! You lot are all nuts I leave it around on the table for a while and then recycle it. Then I wonder why I have no idea what the children are supposed to be doing... Everything else in my life I do online or electronicaly, why can't schools move into the modern age I wonder. I don't have paper files at work, and I really don't want to start having them at home if I can help it - obviously tax stuff, but now I do banking etc on line it's much less necessary, and so much easier.

We do try to move into the modern age, but when only 19 parents bother to let us know their email address (out of a school of 220, about 185 families) it can be a bit difficult.