http://www.sparkplugging.com/home-office-organizer/purge-the-paper-5-tips/ Helping Home Office Professionals Organize Their Office, Time and Space Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:22:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.sparkplugging.com/home-office-organizer/purge-the-paper-5-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-570 PW Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:20:56 +0000 http://www.sparkplugging.com/home-office-organizer/?p=654#comment-570 My husband is an attorney and because many of his aunts/uncles (big family) got married late in life and have no children, they always come to him to help with their financial affairs, wills, powers of attorney, estate planning, etc. He always refers them to other professionals due to conflict of interest. But we always end up "managing" the paperwork, storing it, then producing when a crisis begins or they decease. We set up 4 (5 drawer) old free metal filing cabinets in our shed and store the files in there, no mice, dirt etc. can get in them. We just purged 15 file boxes of papers from his deceased parents that we kept for 10 yrs. (Attorneys in IL must keep files). Now we moved into the empty file cabinets 15 boxes of files from his recently deceased aunt/uncle. That meant 15 boxes of paper out of a bedroom that was the "senior" bedroom. Every once in a while we get an old bill in the mail, and so seem to use the files occassionaly, an heir calls looking for more $ or whatever.That way the files are out of our house and stored cleanly and safely. My husband is an attorney and because many of his aunts/uncles (big family) got married late in life and have no children, they always come to him to help with their financial affairs, wills, powers of attorney, estate planning, etc. He always refers them to other professionals due to conflict of interest. But we always end up “managing” the paperwork, storing it, then producing when a crisis begins or they decease. We set up 4 (5 drawer) old free metal filing cabinets in our shed and store the files in there, no mice, dirt etc. can get in them. We just purged 15 file boxes of papers from his deceased parents that we kept for 10 yrs. (Attorneys in IL must keep files). Now we moved into the empty file cabinets 15 boxes of files from his recently deceased aunt/uncle. That meant 15 boxes of paper out of a bedroom that was the “senior” bedroom. Every once in a while we get an old bill in the mail, and so seem to use the files occassionaly, an heir calls looking for more $ or whatever.That way the files are out of our house and stored cleanly and safely.

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