The First Step

Things have been silent over here because I haven’t been too devoted to this personal finance freedom bit, mostly due to not making the time. I’m stressed. Work is busy, we have big deadlines coming up. While I am on target for my own deadlines, everybody else’s deadlines are like next week and so they are pulling me in to help them. School has been going on…busy.

Anyway, today I conquered one of my biggest problems in this whole ordeal: getting organized. At work, I am the biggest nitpicking neatfreak. All my files are super organized, color-coded, etc. At home? My mail and bills sit in grocery bags or piles around my bedroom. Unopened, unorganized. So today I sat down and went through what was easily three grocery bags worth of mail and bills. A lot of things were still unopened. I din’t get all the way organizied, meaning I didn’t get to put everything in date order in it’s own manila folder. However, I was able to tear up and throw out all needless enveleopes, tear up all credit card offers, seperate everything into its own pile, create some labels in my hanging file folder bin, and put everything in its hanging file folders for further organization. I have paperwork that dates back over a year. The good thing about this is that now I have more space for my books, and now I can truly try and conquer this bill/creditor fiasco. I now have all my creditor bills, and credit reports in one place. I can go through and figure out what needs to be worked out. Hopefully I can get all that done by next weekend, and start writing some checks. I may write some checks early,  because there are some things I know I need to clear up.

Anyway, I am happy to have been able to get this ball rolling.