You have so many stacks of papers and boxes of papers around your home that it embarrasses you so much that you’ve quit having people over. Every time you see all the boxes and stacks of papers you feel stressed and overwhelmed. You have filing cabinets with papers that are so old that the papers […]
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What To Do About the Never-ending Incoming Paperwork
I get asked a lot about how to stay on top of all the papers that you receive on a daily basis. Between new mail, advertisements, catalogs, bills, email and anything that your husband and/or kids bring home it can be overwhelming! Mail and Miscellaneous Papers The best advice that I can give you is […]
What I’ve Learned About Retiring
As you may or may not know I retired from my full-time job on February 1st of this year. I plan on focusing all my attention now on this blog and website. In the almost year before I actually retired, I did a lot of research; talked to some experts and made sure I had […]
Taxes Part 2
So, in part 1 of this blog post, I explained how I file my paperwork all year for my taxes so I’m not scrambling for it in January for my tax man. In this part, I’m going to give you a little more information on exactly what paperwork you will need and some of the […]
Your Tax Paperwork
How do you sort your paperwork for your taxes? Do you have it all thrown in a bag or drawer somewhere in your home and then in January panic because you now have to sort through it all? Do you have it scattered all over so that when you go to get ready to do […]
Steps for Balancing a Checkbook
I was on a training call a few months ago that mention this and then a friend of mine told me recently that most people don’t balance their checkbook registers to their monthly bank statements. I don’t know if it’s that they don’t think it’s important or that they don’t know how to do it […]
HIPAA Certified – What is it; Who & What Does It Do?
HIPAA – we’ve all heard the acronym and have been given those releases to sign at the doctor’s office to but what is HIPAA? What is it really for and more importantly, who and what does it protect? What Does HIPAA mean? So, HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Great – now […]
Five Ways to Organize Your Email
Do you spend most of your time online dealing with your email? I know that I do and it makes me crazy. Since I’ve been so overwhelmed with my email I figured other people feel the same so I decided to do my own research project and see the best methods that I could find […]