Paper is your enemy

How to win the battle against the paper in your life

Paper wants to take over your life. It seeps into every crevice and spontaneously generates over night.

Like kudzu, it seeks to cover every available surface.

It skulks in a small pile on your desk and then stealthily creeps sideways when you aren't looking.

Gangs of paper line up on your dining table and dare you to mess with them.

They jeer.

Kitchen counter piles smirk at you as you pass by.

Paper knows you are helpless and that it is now in control. Resistance is futile.

Wait! It doesn't have to be that way! But you must be willing to wage war against paper.

Pick your battles.

Be on the defensive by preventing paper from coming inside at all.

That means • canceling subscriptions, • getting off junk mail and catalog lists, • signing up for electronic statements from your bank,• not printing out material from the Internet.

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Take the offensive and rout old magazines and newspapers, even if you haven't read them.

Don't let your file cabinets harbor paper you don't truly need.

Get ruthless about what paper is really important and necessary and drive back the rest into the recycling.

Peacefully coexist with paper by confining it to trays, identifiable piles and files.

Paper can stay around as long as you know what it is and where it is.

Make sure it's contributing by being useful or necessary.

The war on paper may go on forever, so gird your loins to deal with it every day. With practice, using these techniques will help you hold the fort easily.

“Out of clutter, find simplicity.” ― Albert Einstein

You don’t have to wage the battle alone!

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