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Last time, when we delved into the “stand up” Smead Organized Up file folders, we talked about the advantages of vertical file folders. Organized Up’s bright folders were a bold stroke in Smead’s bevy of novel filing goodies, but this year’s National Association of Professional Organizers Annual Conference and Expo also had a sleeper product in the category of adjusting your vertical hold. (Paper Doll is suddenly aware that the term “vertical hold” is now wholly out of date. Let us pause while creaky bones gear up for the next paragraph.)

Perhaps lost in the haze and delight over new Esselte/Ampad products like the SimpleSort and Versa Crossover Notebook, a not-quite-as snazzy but no less hardworking product struggled to get attention. If Smead’s Organized Up folders were colorful social climbers, Esselte’s Pendaflex® line delivered two worker-bee classic products with updated styling: Vertical Reinforced Expanding Wallets and Files.

Normally, when you put papers into expanding folders, they’re horizontally arrayed, which means you have to reach into each section, pull out a stack of papers, turn them 90° and search for what you need. It’s not a world-ending problem, but it diminishes efficiency.

Vertical alignment means that you can quickly let your fingers do the walking and assess files in the orientation in which you read your papers. With the Pendaflex® Reinforced Expanding Wallets, your documents are already standing at attention, ready for your perusal. And let’s face it — the main identifying characteristics of any document (logos, titles, dates) are most likely going to be found at the top.

Each wallet is one interior, acid-free, letter-sized pocket, expandable up to 3 1/2″, made of 10% recycled fiber and 10% post-consumer fiber. Rip-proof reinforced gussets keep the tops of the accordion-style expanding sides firmly attached. A scored flap with a hardy elastic closure lets you protect your documents as the wallet’s contents expand, keeping them safe from prying eyes and secure from accidental up-ending when your life simulates a bad comedy.

The expanding wallets are ideal for transporting papers in backpacks, enabling students to isolate and pull out the appropriate papers without having to remove the wallet from the pack and flip it vertically (as is necessary with standard accordion-style wallets).

In case you’d prefer something a little more pizazzified than the accordion-style default of attorney-friendly “redrope” red fiber material, the Vertical Reinforced Expanding Wallets also come in bright red, blue and yellow.

If the wallets are workhorses, the expanding files should be celebrities. That vertical orientation makes it easy to file and access papers, and the same full-size, scored flap with elastic closure and rip-resistant gussets keep this letter-sized tough guy going strong. But unlike the wallets, the expanding files are no mere expanding empty shell.

The Pendaflex® Reinforced Expanding Files come in three varieties:

• Alpha (A-Z) with 21 pockets
• Daily (1-31) with 31 pockets
• Monthly (January – December) with 12 pockets

Unfortunately, redrope is all you get, at least for now.

Whether you’re trying to tote client files or homework, create a vertical, fully-enclosed tickler file, or keep track of a year’s worth of lesson plans or club activities, Pendaflex® has you covered.

Just about every adult I know has something on the kitchen counter called “the pile.”You know them: it’s usually stocked full of receipts, original art work, birthday party invites, ads, coupons, and the like, and if you’re one of the lucky ones sporting said counter pile, you’ve definitely plowed through it on numerous occasions, looking for that holiday flyer or the dentist office reminder card you know is there.Let me show you a trick that virtually eliminates the time-sensitive items from your counter pile. It’s called a Tickler File, and you can have yours set up in minutes. It’ll change your paper-sorting life. How to Set Up Your Tickler File1. Get 12 file folders and label them by month.Put your Tickler in an easy-to-access location. A small file box, a little stacking tray, or the very front of your filing cabinet are great spots.

It doesn’t need to be out in plain sight, you just don’t want to forget where you put it.2. Reference Paper With a “Tickler Symbol” on Your Calendar.When you get a piece of paper that needs to be accessed or used during a specific month (examples below), reference the accompanying action or event on your calendar, and add a little T with a circle around it. This indicates that the paper you’ll need on that date is in your Tickler.If you use a digital calendar, you could use parentheses: (T).Then simply place those time-sensitive papers in the appropriate month’s folder.Sound easy? Now, let’s practice. Smog Check FormIt’s October 10th, and you get a form from the Department of Motor Vehicles, indicating that your registration this year requires a smog check. The smog check can be done during October or November, but the registration is due on December 12th. What do you do?Normally, we’d just stick something like this in “the pile” and hope we remember to get that smog check done in time. Then in January, when we get pulled over by a police officer who’s wondering why our car hasn’t been registered, we plead, “I’m sorry, but have you seen my kitchen counter?

Just about every adult I know has something on the kitchen counter called “the pile.”You know them: it’s usually stocked full of receipts, original art work, birthday party invites, ads, coupons, and the like, and if you’re one of the lucky ones sporting said counter pile, you’ve definitely plowed through it on numerous occasions, looking for that holiday flyer or the dentist office reminder card you know is there.Let me show you a trick that virtually eliminates the time-sensitive items from your counter pile. It’s called a Tickler File, and you can have yours set up in minutes. It’ll change your paper-sorting life. How to Set Up Your Tickler File1.

Get 12 file folders and label them by month.Put your Tickler in an easy-to-access location. A small file box, a little stacking tray, or the very front of your filing cabinet are great spots. It doesn’t need to be out in plain sight, you just don’t want to forget where you put it.2. Reference Paper With a “Tickler Symbol” on Your Calendar.When you get a piece of paper that needs to be accessed or used during a specific month (examples below), reference the accompanying action or event on your calendar, and add a little T with a circle around it. This indicates that the paper you’ll need on that date is in your Tickler.If you use a digital calendar, you could use parentheses: (T).Then simply place those time-sensitive papers in the appropriate month’s folder.Sound easy? Now, let’s practice.

Smog Check FormIt’s October 10th, and you get a form from the Department of Motor Vehicles, indicating that your registration this year requires a smog check. The smog check can be done during October or November, but the registration is due on December 12th.

What do you do?Normally, we’d just stick something like this in “the pile” and hope we remember to get that smog check done in time. Then in January, when we get pulled over by a police officer who’s wondering why our car hasn’t been registered, we plead, “I’m sorry, but have you seen my kitchen counter? Thanks for your comment, Archer! I do typically add the (T) to any item on my calendar or task list that has associated materials in the Tickler–just to make sure I don’t forget. Some items (like concert tickets) are no-brainers, but occasionally I’ll need to take papers to a doctor appointment or a visit to a friend’s home, and I like to remind myself to check the Tickler before I go.And the reason I call it a Tickler is because that’s what David Allen calls it in “Getting Things Done.” And because I think it’s fun to say.

(I’m sure there are some other very good reasons, though:)). Hi Annie,I use a binder for bills (I think I got it from Flylady). Every Saturday, after the mail comes in, I bring up the basket (on the front desk, which contains all the mail) and sort it into keep/bills/recycling/etc.

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Then, the bills go into the binder and I pay them on Sunday (sometimes, I can skip a Sunday if nothing is due for over a week). When I sort them in the binder, I put them in rough order of date due.I also keep stamps, extra envelopes, a pen, etc.

In the binder. I could, theoretically, zip it up and take it with me somewhere to write thank-you notes or something, if I were that sort of organized, thoughtful person, which I am not. 😉I love organizing but staying organized is another thing. I read GTD, but never implemented the tickler file. Maybe I will try it. Janell, I have two zippered pouches, one labeled “retail” and the other “restaurants” and I keep them in my car.

Every so often (usually when I’m waiting in the carpool line) I clean them out and throw away the expired ones. This system hasn’t been perfect for me because sometimes I forget they’re in there and I have to throw away a good coupon that I wanted to use, but maybe I can add a note to my calendar/tickler file that reminds me that they’re about to expire. If you have a gift card to a store that you also have a coupon for, paperclip them together.

I am so like you. “organized chaos” or “chaotic organization”.

I’m very visual, so if things are put away, they are gone forever. I have a thin strip of metal that I use magnets with (got it at Ikea years ago) that hangs under my calendar. It holds school forms, notices, etc that we will need. It’s easy for the kids, hubby myself to see and reach.

It can get a bit full and cluttered sometimes (and we have a new kitty that is obsessed with paper and tearing it up. So I find him jumping up to snatch the papers.

We might need to switch systems!). I may have to try this and see how it goes. See if my visual brain can adapt.

I’ve lost many a paper and item by organizing and putting things away. I eve lost a vital piece to our baby gate for 7 years! It sure was in a “safe place”! I just found this blog, per “Simple Notebook” and am hooked!My prior/main method is just to keep the pile very small. For example, if I get stuff that isn’t due for months, I send it all right in anyway. I pay bills when I get them, etc. Daily/weekly we recycle piles of useless paper.BUT, I will definitely be implementing this strategy in an attempt to kill the.pile.

for good. Funny enough, I just bought some folders. I love them for organization, but could only find a pack of 50. It seemed overkill. The next day I read this blog.

Maybe I will need all these folders after all! I’ve always been awed by the organization power of a few manila folders.P.S. We have a tas manager software at work that uses “ticklers.” It’s been years, but to this day I still think that is a WEIRD word. It is so great to see this on hereI love POMs!This is great! I love how you can plan ahead and note on the calendar where to look. I’m adding this to my current system.I’d like to add that for my immediate action items I have found a LIGHT eight pocket organizer at Office Depot that works GREAT ! The first pocket has my printed calendar (current month and the next month) and the pockets that follow are assigned to my children.

The last pocket is for me. That way I have places for everything to go each week right when it goes on the calendarThe month folders will be perfect to file things that are farther out. I go through it each Sunday and know that my immediate action items are on me that week and I have it with me if I have 30 minutes to blow at an appointment and I can sit and fill out a school form, etc. The SAME calendar going with me everywhere is also a huge help for planning!Thanks so much for these tips! I’m excited to go make monthly folders!. Thanks for your question. It’s true, the Tickler only works for the date-related stuff.The full Mind Organization for Moms program goes into all the details for handling every little bit of paper (so your counters really are empty).But here are a couple of quick answers.For graded papers, I typically review them on the day I receive them, and then I put them into my “Sneaky Sorter” in the laundry room.

(Papers in the top basket will most likely be thrown away, papers in the bottom basket will most likely be kept.) I empty/file those every six months or so. If a paper needs lots of extra attention, I put it into a project support cubby, and then I note on my task list to review it with my child.I do leave the cute art projects on the counter until they’re photographed (usually within a day, as well), or I add it to the Sneaky Sorter (top basket) and photograph everything at once before I toss it.

We do twenty-minute photography sessions at the end of each school year (I give my kids the camera and let them go to town).You’re doing great! Thanks for the questions. Paper is my nemesis. Did I spell that right? Your idea combined with my online Cozi calendar and wall calendar may save me.

I lose everything. I pay late fees so often. I feel out of control much of the time because of my inability to do what seems to come “naturally” to others. I find myself searching and searching for answers to try to find ways out of my chaos. I am a member of Flylady.net. I am working on that.

Up until I read your Tickler idea, when important papers came in, I scotch taped them to my wood cabinets for safe keeping. Conference forms. It makes my kitchen look messy and is not good for the cabinets.

Thank you I am setting this up today. I have a same sort of system, only I use a binder with lots of page protectors and 5 tabs. I love that it is just one item and that nothing can really fall out of it. Instead of months, my tabs are labeled To Do List (stuff pertaining to my never ending list), Needed Soon (tickets, driver’s licence renewal, papers for the doctor’s appointment), Important Papers (info that I would like to have on hand for a couple of months, such as general gymnastics info), Lists (packing list, gift list) and Reference (papers with no expiry date – doctor/hospital info, bank info, recycling info). I love having a place for papers!!!!!!!!!!. My two cents: I bought a 3″, three-ring binder for each of my kids and put in dividers (one for each school year all through pre-, middle- and high-school), and a couple of clear plastic page protectors in each school year.

Now important tests, teacher notes, special assignments and report cards have a place (only those tests and papers worth saving). It has made decluttering school papers easier, and saving the important ones too. And it is only one binder per kid, so it really doesn’t take much space on a shelf, and I can hand it to them when they leave home. As for important documents, I just got a plastic accordion file and gave each family member a slot to organize everything from birth certificates to id cards.

At least if I need a copy I know where to look, although I also scanned the docs.