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$18,000 in un-cashed checks

February 16th, 2010 8:24 AM by Korene L Clopine-Seaman

While getting organized, one of my client found $18,000 in un-cashed checks --what can you find?

Jeannie contacted a professional organizing company to help her organize her home. She and her husband and 2 teenage boys were at their wits end with the amount of clutter and disorganization.

Her main concern was the amount of paper that seemed to just accumulate and grow as the days went by. They set to task organizing papers and creating a system that worked for her.

During this process, they found checks from the IRS, payroll checks and they even found a few rebate checks. The total amount of un-cashed checks found during the three organizing sessions together totaled more than $18,000.

To Jeannie's amazement, many of the checks were accepted. However, many of the checks were refused or had accounts closed due to the fact that the checks were somewhere between three months and five years old. The total amount she lost was approximately $4000.

CHALLENGES -- no central location for incoming mail, no system for accounting or depositing checks, filing system was inadequate for family needs

SOLUTIONS - A basket was placed just inside her home office door and informed every family member that the mail and any action item required by Jeannie would be placed in there.

They created a filing system customized to her family's lifestyle and the way she thinks.

She learned a way to list and manage her tasks so that she could get the most important and urgent tasks done first instead for the easiest first.

She is noticing the techniques she learned for organizing her home office are flowing over to her classroom, her garage and other area of her life.

You can always accomplish more when you can efficiently and effectively manage your tasks.

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Posted by Korene L Clopine-Seaman on February 16th, 2010 8:24 AM

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