Fear of Filing

[NoJo]

..does anyone else here suffer from this crippling phobia?

Is there a cure?

 

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[scheherazade_79]

Make sure you do a neat, smooth job when you cut them, and you shouldn't need to file. Boots own-make nail scissors are good.

 

[matriarch]

Let your nails grow?

Avoid Manilla folders?

Use sandpaper instead?

http://warcrafty.com/spiff/e/shrug.gif

Exactly.

Which 'filing' are you referring to?

That of applying a rough surface against your nails, or
that of sorting paperwork/documentation into some kind of logistical order.

Hmmmm??

If its the first, I have no problem with it.
If its the second, I have always hated that part of my working and home life, but have a tidy/control streak in my character that forces me to organise my paperwork, (actually, ALL my belongings - everything in its place and a place for everything) whether I want to or not.

*sigh*

 

[scheherazade_79]

If it's the paperwork type filing, either pay someone to do it for you, or just don't do it at all and resign yourself to a life of disorganisation.

If it's the woodwork filing... I don't know. I don't do things like that, in case I break a nail. Have you tried wearing cotton gloves?

 

[wishfulthinking]

Chew.

 

[impressive]

Shredder.

 

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[NoJo]

I just leave everything ut for about five years, until its obviously not need ed anymore. I have a red stamp that says


|----|
|FILE|
|----|


which doesn;t really help much

 

[Elsie Grey]

Use my sisters open floor plan. She knows where all her paperwork is... All over the room!

Elsie

xxx

 

[oggbashan]

I've been useless at filing ever since I retired from the job that came with a secretary. She (or he) did all the filing and retrieval for me.

Now I have the Sub Joe method - keep everything in heaps for 5 years then recycle or shred.

Og

 

[SeaCat]

LOLOLOL

I have what my wife and friends call a rather unique filing system. I have three drawers filled with file folders. The first is bills, they are placed in the folder for the month they were payed. The second is pay stubs, again they are placed in the folder for the month they were received. The third is for important corespondance and for user/owners manuals. Again, they are filed according to the month theyw ere received in.

Each drawer holds roughly two years worth of files. At the end of the two years they are moved to a box, (The entire years worth,) and the box is marked with the year.

After five years the box is emptied into a shredder, (except for the important Correspondance and Owners Manuals) The shreds are then used as mulch and hole filler in the yard.

Cat

 

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[Aurora Black]

Filing can be quite the game sometimes.