I have so much paper in my house. It makes me sick. As a result of my nestingness (I know, not a word), I decided to go through some boxes of 'stuff'. And by 'boxes of stuff', I mean our very clean and well organized filing system of important documents. As I've been doing this, I realized a lot of things.
Realization Number 1: Save the comments, I keep too much crap and that has now changed. I have made a resolution to throw away as much stuff as I can.
Realization Number 2: People who do billing have an ulterior motive. It is this, 'make these chumps waste as much paper as possible.' They achieve this by making the date really hard to find on their bills. I thought that we were all taught in like 2nd grade that the date goes in the top right corner. Well, how come on numerous old bills, I found the date in the middle of the paper, or on the bottom left hand hand corner or hidden behind/within some sort of secret combination. Seriously, and yes I am placing blame for my irresponsibility when it comes to throwing things away, I would have thrown them away much sooner if I could have easily found the date.
Realization Number 3: Everything should be done electronically and we should not feel obligated to have anything on a hard copy. I know we should 'always keep a copy in our personal records', but come one, who does that? Lets reduce the footprint we make by not receiving the exact same flow chart that comes in the mail every couple of weeks with Carson's 'copy' pay check. We get a copy telling us that the real check deposited directly. Why waste the paper? The flow chart tells us nothing... I can't believe that the Internet is still too new, young and scary to some people that all banking isn't done entirely online. Between blackberry's, text messaging with cryptic spelling and daily conference calls, we're so far removed from humanity as it is that it's not like we really need the personal face to face time with a bank teller. I know it creates more jobs and blah, bah, blah...I know I'm not making any sense and I probably should have put a warning at the top that this post would be mostly incoherent ramblings of a pregnant nester.
Realization Number 4: In a place like Colorado, I don't know why my area does not have accessible recycling. They won't come and get it and the closest recycling center is like more than an hour away. So if I wanted to recycle all of this paper, all the good that I would be doing would be undone by the gas emissions that it would take to drive there.
P.S. I just spell checked, I had no idea that the word Internet is capitalized
1 comment:
I HATE paper. You can request electronic statements for most bills and/or utilities. That would help. Start getting rid of kid art too. Oh there is so much. And the school papers...jeesh! I just finally started recycling everything that comes home from school. I keep next to nothing. Our school now has a "Green" policy that flyers that can be emailed are emailed and if it must go home, it goes to the "youngest" or "only child". That saves a ream of paper every two flyers, if that makes sense - it cut their copies by about 250. Can I say again, I hate paper? And I am swimming in it!
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