{"id":23301,"date":"2008-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/decluttering-the-office\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T06:00:00","slug":"decluttering-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/decluttering-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Decluttering the Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been trying to clean up the clutter in our house this year, and I am concentrating right now on our office. I&#8217;ve been &#8220;collecting&#8221; all of our old bills and statements for the past couple years and putting them into a big pile. It&#8217;s really ugly. But the past few days, I have been scanning them in to the computer, and the pile is going down! I&#8217;d say I have about 50 more docs to scan. Our <a type=\"amzn\" asin=\"B000ALCJT4\">Epson 4490 scanner<\/a> can scan to pdf (even multipage) which makes it super easy. I am using the naming convention &#8220;Company Date.pdf&#8221; (&#8220;Time Warner 20071019.pdf&#8221;) then dumping them into subfolders (Utilities, House, Auto, Medical, etc.). Then the papers go into the trash or shredder depending on what they are. I am doing about a dozen per day, plus anything new that comes in. I&#8217;d wish they were all just electronic statements to begin with, but not all the companies offer a paperless option.<\/p>\n<p>I need to mention that it&#8217;s inspiring to read our friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmikey.com\">Mikey&#8217;s<\/a> decluttering blog posts. Very inspiring! His house is always so clean and organized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been trying to clean up the clutter in our house this year, and I am concentrating right now on our office. I&#8217;ve been &#8220;collecting&#8221; all of our old bills and statements for the past couple years and putting them into a big pile. It&#8217;s really ugly. But the past few days, I have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/decluttering-the-office\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Decluttering the Office<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-63P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}