Paperwork is the bane of my existence. It's never ending, even in this digital age where bills are paid online. Why do I still have so much paperwork?!

One of the Doctors I work with declutters her kids art work once a year….at Christmas time. She wraps all the small gifts in their art work and uses Christmas ribbons to add the festive touch. The gifts we received looked brilliant💕And whatever she doesn’t use, she throws out. ( except for the special pieces that her kiddos want to keep)

@katsspace4688

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@@annesmith6582tbh I feel like taking photos would just add to the digital clutter that we end up forgetting about. We framed 1 of our kiddos water colour artwork she did in kinder. It's a gorgeous 50cm x70cm piece that still hangs on our wall. We kept some others over the years but most of it went in the bin. But each to their own though. She actually has photos of her kids helping her wrap the gifts and they look so proud to be using their own artwork 💗

I’ve used our utility room to display my favorite kid artwork the whole time we’ve lived here (23 years). My 30 year old, only child finally couldn’t take the embarrassment anymore and disposed of everything 😂🤣 So I guess if you’re patient enough, they’ll do the decluttering for you! 😄

@aleshiarodriguez6138

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That's funny!

@shelbybell787

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😂😂

My favorite thing about this series is that even though you’ve been zone cleaning for a while you are showing that some areas are still in process making zone cleaning way more relatable and saying hey it’s not always 100% done and it’s okay. I feel like my biggest struggle with zone cleaning is that perfectionist mentally and I’m hard on myself. So this is so great to watch, thank you!

Paper is a never ending task.

So grateful I sorted through over ten years worth of paper clutter last year and now have a system in place for dealing with paper as it comes into the house that actually works. Going to take care of my Time Will Tell bin as soon as I post this as a sign of solidarity. 😉

I am loving this series. Thanks for being real and honest, always on your channel. You are making great progress and encouraging me to do the same 👍😁⭐

@angelaslape9354

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I am so very grateful for these videos. I wish my declutter info went as fast as your videos. Lol

Your little guy, Steph! Bless his heart ❤️ What a little sweetheart.

I got 5 totes of my papers and mementos consolidated into one, and it feels fantastic! It's amazing how time can change your perspective on what's valuable...

Love the videos! A small recommendation, please show an after of the spaces and areas you declutter, that's my favorite part is seeing the before and afters!

As an empty nester with two grown kids 31 and 37, I don’t have hardly anything left of their childhood and it’s kinda sad. PAPERWORK is my Nemesis!!! But I have a plan!!! So hopefully this beast will be tamed very soon.

Your idea with binding the kids artwork is genius! I remember keeping EVERYTHING with my first child. By the birth of baby #3, it was overwhelming. I finally sorted them out, but learned not to repeat my error. Great motivational video, Steph. By the way, Your kids are so well behaved and funny. 😊

I recently got a label maker and love it! Yours looks like it's the same model as mine. You can do a chain print and then just cut the individual labels out. Saves loads of wasted extra tape.

Paper clutter can be overwhelming. So thankful most paperwork can be saved digitally.

I definitely have a lot less paperwork now than I used to thanks to decluttering channels.

Well it took me all day but I was motivated by your decluttering of kids artwork. I have no kids but I had a giant tote full of 20 years of my childhood memories that I haven't even opened since I brought it over from my parents. I took 250 pictures of the contents and documented years on each to print for a photo album. I will now get to browse through my old achievements and artwork while my memory box was condensed to a small container. Wahoo!

Loving seeing someone sitting in a room full of stuff. Feels very..... relatable.

Paper work is a never ending task. I try to deal with it as it comes in. When I'm finished with my closet this is definitely on my to-do list. Thank you for the motivation Steph! 😊

I have 13 years of homeschool papers, projects and artwork- in 8 stuffed bankers boxes. This is my big project and haven’t started. However I have set up current project files, medical record files (for each member of the family) and other files. This year I have a Current Year file for 1. Paid bills 2. Paid medical bills (anything related to the money side of medical) 3. Receipts and a Prior Year for the same (except receipts). At the beginning of the year, I throw away/shred Prior Year and move all Current Year to Prior Year. No longer have years on file folders. My husband takes care of taxes and he keeps all those records in his office. I really look forward to watching this series. Thanks Steph!!

I’ve spent the past several days working on paperwork in my genealogy files. It’s never ending.

I love how your "mom" label just suddenly appeared in the second half of the video. 😄 I definitely have some paperwork that I need to go through!!

Paper is the category I dreeeeaaaad but is the most fulfilling when I do it!

Today’s the day. Thank you for the encouragement. I had some surgery, that requires Occupational Therapy. The frog I have to eat today is to move a few other long-standing doctors appointments around, so they don’t conflict with the Occupational Therapy schedule I’ve been given. But! I have two boxes of paper on my dining room table, my only eating table. So, I am going through those today, after I rearrange my appointments. Great series. And you have such a lovely way about you. Encouraging and kind, with solid ideas. Thank you

Paperwork is my biggest decluttering problem. I have years and years of accumulated papers, and boxes of papers in nearly every room of my house. It's a huge job, but I am working on it!! Thanks for your encouraging videos! Enjoyed seeing your little helpers!

Good morning Steph….I hate paperwork. I worked in a paper intensive industry until I retired. Facing paperwork and shredding daily gave me enough for a lifetime. I have bags of shredding going to the local shredder. I have stacks of save stuff that needs to be filed and I have some old files to go through. Thank goodness it’s chilly and cloudy today so I can devote a huge amount of time to getting it accomplished. Keep your videos coming. Loving this series. Thank you.👍🏻

Your kids are adorable. The struggle is real around paperwork.

Love the little helper! This last year I helped my mom go through all of the papers my dad had saved for their house, his job, church, and volunteer job, plus his mother's, aunt's and in-laws paperwork that they inherited. It went back to 1965. He kept it all, including extras of the handouts he made. We burned out two shredders and brought over 1,000 pounds to recycling. On the one hand, I was motivated to reduce my own paper clutter, on the other hand, I never want to handle another piece of paper again!

I did this by accident yesterday when I had to track down some old income forms. Once I got into the paperwork, I just kept going! Thanks for sharing these videos with us. Also, I fully respect your decision to generally keep your kiddos out of your videos, but your little one’s cameo was delightful - what a cutie!

Your son is so beautiful! His big yawn was so precious!

You've got some awesome helpers there! And I love that you labeled yourself "Mom" 😂😂👍 Great video as always, thank you for the inspiration!

The papers/mail is the absolute hardest for me. I don't know why. It's where I will procrastinate the longest. I finally went through my piles in March (forced to because of taxes) and now am trying to keep on top of it. As soon as something comes in from the mailbox or school I try to deal with it immediately. Thanks for continuing to inspire!!

This is a task that I could easily get lost in! If I start going through notebooks, I get all in my memories when I read notes I've jotted down maybe 2 or 10 years ago.... Next thing I know, it's been four hours and I haven't accomplished anything. That's why I love the 5x5 timer!! I do a full 25 mins on one task and then I STOP! It also helps keep me focused.

My paperwork is pretty well organized, but it's time for me to go thru the existing folders and weed out the outdated bills, payments, paperwork that is in there. I try to do this about every 3-4 months and it's time to do this now! Thank you Steph!

Paper is the hardest thing. How does it grow and get out of control so fast?! This series is so motivating.

I do this as an annual task, which makes it much more manageable. I shred anything I don’t need to keep, and it means that I only need an hour or two once a year. Keeping on top of paperwork as it comes into the house is key!

I love the randomness but effectiveness of this devlutter. Needed a fly lady break. Lol.

Wow! You got SO much done! It was great for me to declutter some papers today. I also worked on a little project that I usually push aside when I declutter. I'm very glad I did. I'm also trying to continue with the closets a little bit at a time. Today I pulled out a bin in a closet that I call "The Halfway House." It is for things that we are unsure about decluttering. It also holds packaging for items that might need returning to a store. That bin is so much better now. Thank you for this fun series!!

While we were prepping to move 4 years ago, I went thru all of my papers. It took me hours. I ended up with 8 large trash bags stuffed full of the shredded papers. Since moving into our new home, I have all of my important things in a large dresser, with important papers in their folders, tax papers in descending year order, and all office supplies in one of the drawers. Great job Steph! Especially with little ones around. Well done ! tfs 🥰✝💗🐣🐤🐇🥚💐🌷🌞🌛🥰✝💗🐣🐤🐇🥚💐🌷🌞🌛🥰✝💗🐣🐤🐇🥚💐🌷🌞🌛

Paper clutter made me sleepless! lol. I decluttered in stages. I did the first big cleanup - just 2 piles, keep and get rid of about 3 years ago. Then in between lockdowns in 2020, i got organized and put papers in categories envelopes, and now about a month ago i scanned all the vital important papers, as well as semi important docs... Feels so good! .. Now i just gotta maintain it! :)

I remember those days of having boxes of papers that my children gave me as gifts. During their teenage years, I had them choose what they wanted to keep aside from the items I wanted to cherish. They didn't want to keep much. LOL. I put the artwork in a binder and keep it in a storage bench in my bedroom. I've downsized paper clutter a lot. I regularly shred. Also, I have our important documents (birth certs, passports, insurance policies, etc. in a fire safe bag. I heard that idea from Erica Lucas.

Paperwork is always the hardest for me! I love love this series!

It’s a double whammy day today. I do have a rather large (and growing) file folder of papers that need sorting, it’s anti-procrastination day, and I have your video for inspiration. Love it when the stars align! ✨🙌🏼👏🏻🥳

Paperwork! I do have to say that when I went through my mom's things it was fun (as a 65 year old) to go through and see some of my school work from Kindergarten on up. Just one or two things saved per year. Ah.....history...... And I love, love, love the desk you made in the background! Use what we have - it's a great example!

Paperwork can add up so easily so a great thing to add to the list to declutter.

The never ending battle of paper! Good job!👏👏👸🥇

it's nice to have a little things each day to look at and work on

I have a love/hate relationship with paper as some is sentimental. Several years ago I went through years worth of stuff. Now, I need to go through it again as I have more than I like. Thanks for the motivation Steph.

Your little helper is ADDORIBLE!!!

I am also tackling my craft room (quilting) as my big project. I organized some fabric scraps for two scrap quilts which reduced my fabric strip drawer by half. And I went through one of my binders of patterns and decluttered a bunch. I will bring them to my quilt guild meeting tomorrow night to see if anyone wants them before recycling them. Thanks for the motivation!

Well again I have no excuses. If you are going through mounds of paperwork, I can too. When I moved in September, I got rid some. I now have moved again and this needs to be done. You've given me some great ideas for important papers and personal papers. Thank you Steph!!

I try to go through filed papers once a year & deal with the daily stuff/mail everyday as soon as it comes in. It’s amazing how much we file away thinking we need it.

I would say paperwork is the ONE thing I always seems to keep on top of!

I am in a forced declutter right now because I moved from 2 bdrm house to 1 bdrm apt. Very grateful for some guidance and support in this difficult transition

I don't have children so don't have that to deal with. I live alone and I am always amazed at how much paper comes into my house, even though I have gone digital for many things. This video is motivation to address my inbox - things I decided in a previous sort/purge I need to take action on. I am finishing my taxes this week too, so that will be motivation to review past tax files. Thank you for sharing your life with us. Cute son!

This is the bane of my existence

I am new to this channel so I have been binge watching Many of the comments are just as good as the video itself. I always hit the thumbs up on any comment I read no matter how old the video is. I think that also helps with Stephs algorithm.

paper clutter...the Bain of my existence!

Thank you for being real and relatable! Currently slogging through years of paperwork, so this video was super-motivating!

I like the idea of bringing everything into one place as all my stuff is in 3 different places. You make it real! Other videos show an already organized house, but seeing your room, is like mine- lots of piles.

I love the idea to have one file for inportant papers and a separate file for reference and personal papers.

My older kids are both in high school and I had a lot of their artwork starting at preschool. I finally went thru them and let them pick what was important for them and kept some that were sentimental for me and got rid of all the other ones. Between them and my 2 younger ones I still have plenty of artwork to store. 😀

Getting rid of toddler artwork can be so hard, but in 10 years you will be ready to let 90% of it go. I love how you got the input from your kids. Good job Mom!

Kid’s art: the struggle is real! Great solution!

What beautiful children you have. I love to see in your videos that you are a normal person, without the picture perfect magazine home, that you’ve got kids running around climbing all over you as you try to tackle all these things too. On a separate note, papers are a huge thing for me (notebooks too) thank you for the idea of doing a file for my person things! I think that may be the biggest struggle for me. Things personal to me that I need to deal with yet but have no place to go.

Paper takes a very long time when you have boxes of it. Thanks for getting me started.

Paper is the next worst thing to deal with! Love the way you handle this!

Watching this made me feel better about my paper work. I have many notebooks too. I love these it does not feel overwhelming taking day by day.

Paper clutter is the worst! Thanks for the encouragement to get it done!

I've been on a mission to get rid of 24 years of my own paperwork gone. None of which I ever threw away. Monthly banking statements, credit card invoices, 4 years worth of weekly work schedules, all pay stubs, rent receipts, stacks, years worth of van rental receipts, tax papers, I know it's all there too because I never threw away anything with my name on it. Fine. It took me 3 days, full time work. Then I realized I still have my mom's paperwork which she was sitting on. Her paperwork, my paperwork, my brother's paperwork, and all of it needed to be sorted through. She passed in early 2010. March, and you know something..... Going through what she had was painful to me. It made me see my mother differently and miss her. Her handwriting, her signature it was like a time capsule. She was a bank book hoarder. She literally had 30 of them, some fully used up with DONE written on then cover, some unused, some are a complete mess, but where it hits me looking at entries around mine and my brothers birthdays.... It's like $500 with drawal then same day $100 withdrawal, then some transaction you know she bought dinner. She didn't always have it easy either. To she what she was making in the late 80's and then at the time she passed, she did good. I find notes, things, cards people really liked her a lot. I found one of my resumes in her box. Then I found one of her resumes in the same box, which for some reasons I she made up in the early 00's, the structure was based off mine :) which a lady showed my how to do in the late 90's. I still use that format. I kept a few of her bank books. Really, it's a lot of what she was up to and when. I never knew my mother's business, what she made exactly so it's knew to me. Insee receipts for this it's, I found the paperwork and receipts for a Tiffany lamp. One In actually threw in the garbage not realizing it was actually a Tiffany Lamp. $1500 on the paperwork. I threw it in the garbage. One of those many things, not my style, I don't want it, it's PROBABLY not worth much, garbage. I find calendar books, I look to all of our birthdays. She didn't write them in all, but I got it in one.

So, I've been watching this about ten times already and I'm sorry but I didnt hear a thing you said nor did I lift a finger. The cuteness was so loud! Couldn't help but keeping my eyes on the little nugget as he kept his stare right back at me, into my soul! What innocence lies in the eyes of a child. (Yeah, im sure the sibblings and parents may beg to differ sometimes ;-) Bless you all Steph

Your daughter poking her head around you and your little boy sitting on you was so relatable and funny to me. #momlife

Getting rid of tons of old school work today. Thank you for inspiration!

My kids are grown and gone. What I did with their school papers was put them in a scrap book - one for each child. It went into a tote with their other memories. When they get settled I’ll give them their tote.

I did a major decluttering 2 years before we moved & have been regularly decluttering since then since I have a smaller house now. But I still enjoy this series as I can just quickly do the challenges with you. I’m here to say it’s so worth it! Once you’re on this side were you just need to maintain it’s not nearly as much work or time consuming!! It also helps me be more mindful of things as they come in & keep things from not even coming in 😊

Appreciate these dailies so much. So many different kinds of paperwork to deal with I have plenty to choose from.

Love how you store your important papers in the contained tote

I HATE paperwork. It is on going and impossible!! But watching and listening to your paper clutter, has made me semi conquer mine!!

Perfect timing this challenge was just what I needed to go through 4 banker’s boxes full of unknown paper.

I picked up an old filing cabinet from a elderly lady and I've been planning to paint it and sort my mess of papers... Now I have some motivation to get it done! 🙂

The first few paper decluttered were rough, but then it got so much easier when systems in place

I have gotten soo much better with handling paper and it’s thanks to people like you who motivate us and remind us of the why behind decluttering. 😊 with that being said I still need to perfect my system to prevent papers from being everywhere and I still have piles I need to tackle…including lots of kids artwork as well 😬 progress not perfection 💪🏼

Yes! Paper clutter...I need this! A constant battle for me...

Well done!! I am lucky my husband keeps most of our files, but I have baskets of my stuff - gardening, recipes, things that I took out of my notebooks. Today is the day. Thankfully, it is a sit-down job. Going to watch a favorite TV a program.

Your kids are precious! Loved seeing them in the video. Paperwork is THE worst! Ugh! Not only do I have all of the usual stuff people accumulate, but I taught multiple courses in college English for 40 years, so I have a BUNCH! I also love how you keep it real in your videos. It’s good to see your true messes. Helps me feel better about myself.

oh your children around are so so sweet :) and when he is yawning is soooo sweet :) it is the exact feeling about dealing with paperwork but it is feeling so empowering to face it ! as I even feel it is blocking to evolve if too much. so thank you for sharing the motivation sincerely as I am totally into this these days :) 😅😘

Paper is a big challenge for me! So.much.paper, snd so much of it is random. It’ll be so good when it makes sense!!

Love how you put things in manageable chunks. Thanks for this great series.

Kids work is the hardest to decluttering. My kids went to public school. I saved everything until the end of the year and then went through it all and saved 20 items per child per year. I have all their 12 years for 2 children in one box. If digital photography was a thing, I would have them go through the rest and pick things they wanted to save and I would scan them digitally.

I am a secret slob of paperwork among other things. For years, clean up for company consisted of a quick sort of urgent items (bills/checks) in a pile for the desk and the rest in a box (which was never looked at again). A month ago I started going through years of similar boxes, piles and envelopes. I took a box or so at a time (among other decluttering tasks) and sorted into really keep (copy of house records to go into the safe, very special letters or cards to go into a memory bin, etc.), discard in recycle, discard in shred, give to someone else. I'm still at it but very near the end. WHAT A task.

Your contest is one reason I subbed your channel! So excited you’re making it possible to support local businesses through this!!! Way to go!!!

Paper feels like my nemesis! Happy to work alongside you today

I have some file boxes similar to your personal papers one that I store my boys artwork/schoolwork in by year. It’s labeled from pre-school to the end of high school. Anything they bring home during the year that they deem special enough goes in that years file. At the end of every school year we go through the books that come home and tear out any work they’re super proud of and want to keep. We also have a quick glance at years past in their file to see if they want to remove anything else. The plan is when they leave home they will have just one file box with their school memorabilia in it which covers their entire schooling. Unlike the mountain of boxes I had. By going through it every year we keep only the most important things and by filing new stuff as we go and reviewing at the end of the year we keep it super manageable. Good luck keeping on top of your kids artwork I know what a mammoth task it can be.

I have a fire proof safe for the most important stuff. Wills , birth certificates passports etc. it is immensely peaceful for my mind. I keep I small container for bills and current issues. Works great. I only have I small box to go through now. 🤪 I will got through my one contrainer now. The other habit I picked up years ago was go through the mail a d throw out junk as soon as it comes in the house. I don’t want a pile of junk mail anywhere. Then I open mail at once and throw out envelopes I don’t need. So right there is a space saving technique I love. ❤️

This is one of the hardest and longest projects but will certainly be one of the most satisfying to b done with!

I love these smaller projects throughout the week. Much more manageable! My paperwork is mostly under control, but I do have a small stack of mail to sort through.

Lol, the little one in the background is so adorable! 🤣

Keeping old journals is so hard! "What if I need to remember this?" LOL

It’s so fun to have a video everyday! It’s so motivating!

Papers will be the biggest task for me. Thank you for the motivation!

Ugh, paperwork is so intimidating. Thanks for giving us the guts to do it!