I have a paper problem. You see.. after we moved from Lansing to Wyoming, I finally finished sorting and filing like a year worth of credit card and other account statements. Then, in my usual fashion, I stopped keeping up with it for like 4 or 5 months.

Then the water thing happened. You remember the water thing, right? yeah. So we moved again. and I stopped keeping up with my paperwork on a massive scale. I just kept throwing stuff on a pile in my desk cupboard:

Today I decided to actually get started on fixing this problem.

I pulled out all of the unopened envelopes and laid them out on the table:

Then, I sorted everything by who it was from:

It helps when you have the proper tools – can you tell what is wrong with the opener on the right? It works as well as a finger

And now, this is what I have left: