I also have all of the posts pinned to my Household Organization Diet pinterest board. You CAN get that house cleaned and organized once and for all! To see all of the previous posts click the Get Organized tab at the top of the blog and go to The Household Organization Diet. No more resetting passwords or forgetting that your bill is monthly instead of bi-monthly. If you need some organization inspiration, check out THIS POST to learn more about the plan and THIS POST for all of the 2015 updates. Keep all your bill information in one place using this monthly bill organizer template. That intern at the hospital’s billing department probably hasn’t learned the ins and outs of the details, so you may or may not receive the same bill twice. This post is part of The Household Organization Diet. The Federal Trade Commission suggests keeping your paid (and undisputed) medical bills for at least one year. The March Household Organization Diet – Organizing the Home Office How to Organize Paperwork – Creating a Paper Trail So let’s get organizing those bills! Next Monday we will be putting our family binders together and will be working on the budget!įor more tips on organizing paperwork, check out these posts… Even if your parents dont need help with their finances yet, ask them to put together a list of their key financial information and contacts. And remember: You can often work with billers to change your due dates so they coordinate with when you have the most cash available. When the bills are paid, pull them out of the unpaid bills, keep them in alphabetical order but this time file them into the relevant month in the paid. Use this worksheet to track when your bills are due and when you plan to pay them each month. In the paid bills file put Jan-Dec monthly dividers. 15-30 minutes once per week should do it! Inside the unpaid bills put a-z alphabetical dividers so that the bills can be filed in alphabetical order which makes them easy to find, especially if you have a high volume of bills. Be sure to schedule a specific time each week to sit down and review your banking statements and pay bills.Again, this will significantly cut down on your paperwork while still making all of your bills easily accessible to you. As soon as you receive the email, place it into the Bills to Pay and then move it to the Bills Paid once you have paid it. If you tend to receive your bills through email, create a folder in your email system specifically for Bills to Pay and Bills Paid. Again this will significantly cut down on your paperwork. One of my tasks for this month’s Household Organization Diet was to review our family binder your bill statement from online.