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Summary: File cabinets, file folders and mountains of paper on your desk are all ways people organize their paper. Learn more in this free educational video series.
Shana Bethune is a video editor and sound engineer with a BA in architecture from Barnard College. She lives in Boston, MA, where she keeps a home office for her freelance work. ...read more
"Hi, this is Shana Bethune on behalf Expert Village. I'm going to talk to about how you can limit the use and storage of paper keeping around unnecessary paper work is always a problem so there a few different ways you can get around it. First of all it helps if you have a scanner cause that way you can scanner any sort of important documents and store them on your computer rather than keeping a hard copy around just sitting in a file somewhere. Since you have limited space in your home office storing paper can take up a lot of room so it's best if you can find anything that you can scan. Scan it, put it onto your computer and then throw it out unless you need it for some sort of legal tax reason and there's really no reason to keep it around. If you need another copy at any point you can just print it out scanning documents and storing them on your computer can also save you time looking for things later. It's much easier to loose a paper among a stack of other papers than it is to loose the document on the computer. So save yourself some time space and money by making your office paperless as possibly as you can."
eHow Article: Keep Paper Organized in Your Home Office