The One Year Drawer

The One Year Drawer has been an organization lifesaver at our house. There was a time back in the day when I would try to get super organized every January. I would make a file for each month and include folders for each bill, along with more folders for other receipts and paperword we needed to keep.

You guessed it. I kept it up great for . . . the first two weeks of January! That's when we finally started the One Year Drawer. We designated a drawer inside a chest to be the recipeint of every single thing we might need for taxes. No more folders, no more tedious labeling. When tax time came, I emptied it out and put the tax information together. We've done it every year since. Sure, it takes a few hours to go through all that stuff. But the rest of the year is carefree! And when you need some paperwork, there's no lost time looking for it. It's all in the One Year Drawer.