The Paper Solution : What to Shred, What to Save, and How to Stop It From Taking Over Your Life

Lisa Woodruff
The Paper Solution : What to Shred, What to Save, and How to Stop It From Taking Over Your Life
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The Paper Solution : What to Shred, What to Save, and How to Stop It From Taking Over Your Life
ISBN: 9781472273772
Publication Date: 13 October 2020

A simple and accessible guide to paper management, from the organizational expert who has been called the "Marie Kondo of paper"

We are drowning in paper. We keep stacks of it on the kitchen counter, stash it in drawers, and stuff file cabinets full of documents (just one file cabinet can hold 18,000 sheets of paper - yikes). Despite this clear crisis of paper, there hasn't been a book devoted to managing and organizing this single most abundant item in our homes - until now.

In The Paper Solution, Lisa Woodruff delivers a proven, step-by-step guide to decluttering the paper in our lives and sorting what's left behind into easily accessible, structured, and, most importantly, manageable files.

The system Woodruff offers isn't based on unrealistic advice, such as 'touch a piece of paper only once'. Instead, it accounts for paper's unique qualities: its sentimental value, ability to accumulate astonishingly fast, the generational differences in how it's treated, and the fact that it's not going anywhere despite the popularity of minimalism movements such as Kon Mari. Woodruff's approach is doable, effective, and compassionate.

Much more than simply cleaning out your files, The Paper Solution will help you organize your paperwork with a purpose-removing the heavy burden of a chaotic mess and giving you the space and time to enjoy what you love and discover a sense of peace.

About the Author

Lisa Woodruff is an organizational expert and the founder of Organize365, which works to help busy people get their home and paper organized with functional organizing systems that work. She lives in Ohio.