Creating Your System

Notice I said creating “your” system. The best system to organizing your files is going to be your own. I will show you how to create your own system as I use my filing system as an example. I encourage you to use what I have done as a template for creating your own system.

Since you have already decided between what papers to keep and what to toss, we can move directly into organizing the papers into individual files and folders.

One of the most important parts of organizing your files is deciding which broad categories to use for your files. For example, I bought a car last year and I had papers from the purchase of the car, papers from the taxes paid on the car, papers on the warranty of the car, papers on the insurance of the car, and papers on the financing of the car. Now how would you sort all of the “car” papers? You would think that making one big folder called “CAR” and dumping all the papers in there would be a good idea, but it would be the worst thing you could do. You need to imagine yourself in the future in the middle of looking for that elusive piece of paper. What situations would cause you to have to dig in your file folder?

An Example File Folder from the eBook:

Appliance Manuals:
Normally you can find any manual that you might need online with a quick Google search, and I normally throw all of those out. Unfortunately, there where a few manuals that I couldn’t find anywhere, so I stuck them here.
*CAUTION* - This folder can quickly become overstuff with thick and mostly useless manuals. I suggest only keep those manuals that you can't easily access online and that you are going to really need. If only a few pages of the manual are really useful such as “remote codes” for your TV, then cut those pages out and toss out the rest of the manual.

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