These are just a guideline to help you with your home filing system.
Home filing cabinet categories. Today s declutter 365 mission designed to be done while working through the organize files challenge here on the site is to actually create your home filing system. Do what works best for you saves space and is convenient and a system that you will actually. There were files in there from the late 90s. Home filing cabinets can store a wide range of work documents and memorables.
And finally what you ve all been waiting for. May 19 2016 setting up a home filing system to get your papers organized doesn t have to be difficult when you use these suggest home file categories. When you take paper out to work with the file folder will help you keep things together. Categories for your home filing system.
A home office filing cabinet a work filing cabinet a school filing cabinet a small business filing cabinet and so much more. Some may be in their own filing system some on your computer etc. If the primary material of the cabinet is a priority choose from solid wood or metal types. As an amazon associate i earn from qualifying purchases.
Select file cabinets with varying storage like a single drawer or ones with two or three drawers. Keep important documents safe with filing cabinets with added security features like lockable. This list will help you make sure you ve got all the files set up you ll need. Your personal filing system should include the following categories.
I thought the filing cabinet should be tackled first. As i mentioned earlier you can just file the most important categories or you can file everything you own. To get started though we will only work with the basic necessary categories for most households and work on our active files. And lastly not all of these filing categories need to be in a hanging file folder in a filing cabinet.
A vertical file cabinet helps you maximize a corner space. Academic car employment financial health id insurance and real estate. Well after over 6 hours of sorting and shredding broke a shredder had to buy a new one my filing cabinet is finally purged. Organize them alphabetically but keep the id file with your birth certificate passport social security cards and anything else you use often at the front of the file box.
Home file organization categories. You can use these tips to organize any type of filing cabinet. Below are my suggestions for the categories of files you should create. Then when it is time to replace the information back in the file drawer your tab will make it easy to see where it goes.
Naming categories and files. Even worse those files followed us through 2 or maybe 3 moves. Add the file folders for the sub categories.