Regardless of how digitized our lives have become, the accumulation of snail mail is still cluttering our homes. While much of the mail goes straight into trash – and those pesky credit card offers go into the shredder – the rest of it requires a simple strategy to keep things from piling up. Here are our tips for sorting the snail mail you still need to manage:

No matter how much you’ve converted to paperless practices, your home and office will always collect a certain amount of paper to be filed away. If you don’t want unruly piles gathering, having a system – and a schedule – in place makes filing much simpler. Start by considering what you actually use in your […]

Signing and sending off your tax returns can result in a huge sense of relief, but the paper trail that’s left behind can be almost as confusing as the actual tax forms! The fear of tossing out some document that you might need in the future, can result in unnecessary paper hoarding, and eat up […]

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance estimates that 75% of obsolete electronics are currently being stored, which will one day result in a massive disposal issue for the country and the world. Perhaps that’s why Mayor Adrian M. Fenty kicked off this new program. Mayor Fenty announced the District began itsfirst permanent free, weekly Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) […]