Saving paperwork?
Rho Dodendron
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Comments (17)Just in response to the negative Gurney/Henry Fields comments. Overall I have had good luck with seeds from Gurney's and Henry Fields(they and some others are affiliated)but especially good luck with Henry Fields corn seed, strawberry plants, birch trees and scotch pine. My chief complaint would be the lack of variety, which is why I no longer order from them. No luck with either of their rasberries, white pine - they both refunded or replaced everything the next year(s). After 7 years, my dwarf fruit trees(Gurney) finally started to produce last year(got 7 pears on one tree...lol). IMO both places' seed is overpriced even with the $25 off(plus $10 to ship the seed pkts). Their nursery stock is questionable but can...be a deal. Four Seasons Nursery(a similar but differnt company?) has some deals if you don't care about starting out with a sapling - just hang on to your reciept/order #... I think alot of times peoples problems are a result of user error. They have a great and easy return policy. Just don't get suckered into buying too much of their overpriced stuff while trying to take "advantage" of the $25 off "deal"...Their corn seed is about the only thing I might consider buying again. Too many other websites nowadays with a much better selection and value....See MoreHow did you organize your paperwork?
Comments (13)I kept a 3 ring binder with all of the financial and legal stuff and then another 3 ring binder for the aesthetics. I made a tab for every single room in the house. Then I created a sheet that had details like: Light fixtures, flooring, paint color, trim color, trim detail, appliances, special electrical (like dimmers, etc), I filled this out for every room and put if directly after the tab, and then used clear sheet protectors for my inspiration pictures clipped from magazines, etc. This was sometimes specific, like a bit of trim detail for a room, sometimes it was a room arrangement, paint I liked, beams I liked, whatever. I gave a copy of this book to my builder. He would call me and ask a question and I could often get out my book and tell him where to find a picture of exactly what I wanted. It really helped. It also helped me to organize myself and my ideas. I literally had a few hundred magazines with pages folded down of things I loved. I had to cut that down and organize it , no chance I could carry my steamer trunk of magazines around with me!--- I found that I had 25 pictures of staircases I liked. I only needed one, so I had to pick, or at least take the best parts of each picture and I had a clearly defined staircase.... and so it went for every detail of the house. Then I organized them per room and I was able to flip through the book and see if my "vision" all worked together. Sometimes there was an individual element that I loved in a picture, but when I flipped through my book, it just didn't make sense in the house and I scrapped it early in the process. My builder told me after the build that I was the best decision maker he has ever worked with, and I think it all had to do with taking the afternoon to get everything into an organization system that worked throughout the build. Maybe you meant strictly on the paperwork side, so I apologize if this is not part of what you are looking for! Good luck!...See MorePaperwork...may I please throw some of this OUT?
Comments (14)I've never heard of the person who wrote the list in the link above, but I'd bet my life savings that she has never been divorced. If she had been, surely she'd know that her advice to throw away many of those records after 3 years could easily cost someone of modest means $100,000 or more, since you'd no longer be able to prove what is or isn't marital property. In many states, your ex would wind up with half of savings, investments, and stuff that should have been yours. Absolutely nuts IMO....See MorePaperwork and phone calls
Comments (4)Thanks for writing about this--if nothing else, it got me to get a few things done, myself. :) Paperwork is something I only seem to keep on top of for short periods of time! 1) It helps me to keep "action" papers (as you describe) separate from "to-be-filed" papers. Saves time and aggravation looking for things, when you want to get started. 2) FYI, Flylady works paperwork into her weekly routine; see link below and scroll down to see Wednesdays and Fridays in her Basic Weekly Plan. But I don't quite get it, and even emailed her with questions! What she has on Wednesday makes sense to me because it's paperwork that helps prepare for Errand Day on Thursday. But why split it up and have more that will need to be mailed Friday? My main question, though, was how to deal with backlog. I wondered if she meant us to work on paper backlog only on Desk Days, or every day during the 15-minute declutter. Didn't really get an answer. 3) Another board I was on, we committed to taking care of 10 pieces of paper a day. Didn't matter if it was filing, tossing junk mail, or filling out insurance papers. It worked pretty well--if I could just remember to do it! 4) Someone told me they did the day's paperwork *that day,* every single day, to prevent more backlog. Then on Desk Day they worked primarily on the old stuff, about an hour. Hope this helps, Erica Here is a link that might be useful: Flylady's paperwork routines...See MoreTonya Yoder
3 years ago
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