Monthly Planner For Organizing Bills
Every year, I buy a monthly planner at the dollar store. When my bills arrive, either in the mail or online, I put them in the appropriate month in my planner.
To keep the clutter down of junk mail coming in the house, we keep a shredder handy and go through the mail as soon as it comes in. Magazines, newspapers, ads, etc. go into a bag to be recycled.
I keep a large manila folder with file folders in it labeled such as home insurance policy, auto insurance, etc. I only check my mail as I'm driving out of my driveway on the way to work.
This is a guide about organizing mail. Even in the day of electronic bill paying, we can still be deluged with mail.
This is a guide about organizing catalogs. Organizing your mail order catalogs will make shopping easier.
This is a guide on organizing bills. It is easy to forget to pay a bill when it gets mixed up with junk mail. With a system for organizing bills, you will always get your bills paid on time.
Disposing of Free Address Labels to Prevent Identity Theft
My mother gets hundreds of the sticky return address labels, we have been cutting them up and trashing them. They destroy shredders, by gumming up the blades. How can we get them to stop sending them and what is an easier way to dispose of them?
I just purchased a Wonderfile and I have to tell you that I highly recommend them.
Calendar to Track Automatic Bill Payments
I used to be easily discouraged about ever getting a handle on our finances. I just couldn't find a method that I could stick to or that actually made sense to me. Here is something that has helped me to not only pay our bills on time, but actually keep track of them.