american_mama
09-01-2007, 08:56 PM
I need organizational ideas for handling mail. We bring our mail in the front door, but all our files, billpaying facilities, etc. are downstairs in our study. As soon as we walk in the door, we don't know what to do with the mail. It usually gets put on the dining room tables, which is where we eat dinner every night. Come dinnertime, it gets thrown anywhere... on the floor, on extra chairs, stuffed on the buffet table. We can end up with weeks of mail on the buffet table.
We do ok with throwing the junk mail away right away except what needs to be shredded... because the shredder is in the basement. I am not sure it is safe to have a shredder upstairs where the kids would frequently see it, touch it, and hear it go.
We have a very small entry way so not too many possible places to put a mail sorter. We have one with three small slots for mail and one place to put it, but some challenges with attaching it have meant it's never been put up.
DH and I fight about this all the time. It's ridiculous. We say the same things over and over. DH: "We need to put the mail away in the study." Me: "We need to find something to do with the mail when we first walk in the door." Repeat, repeat, repeat, with various phrasing, for (umm) two years.
We do ok with throwing the junk mail away right away except what needs to be shredded... because the shredder is in the basement. I am not sure it is safe to have a shredder upstairs where the kids would frequently see it, touch it, and hear it go.
We have a very small entry way so not too many possible places to put a mail sorter. We have one with three small slots for mail and one place to put it, but some challenges with attaching it have meant it's never been put up.
DH and I fight about this all the time. It's ridiculous. We say the same things over and over. DH: "We need to put the mail away in the study." Me: "We need to find something to do with the mail when we first walk in the door." Repeat, repeat, repeat, with various phrasing, for (umm) two years.