Paperwork

[janestarz]

Yesterday evening I kicked myself into gear to sort out my paperwork. My in-tray was overflowing a couple of weeks back but I had sorted through it in order to get all the Dolle Griet paperwork out of the way. This would be the second haul, in which my own paperwork would get filed.

I can't abide chaos where I have to work. This is the sole reason why my sewing desk is always clean, whereas my computer desk is a grand mess. The only work I do at home is sewing, after all.
But to all that comes an end too.
I divided the grande task into bits, taking only healthcare papers, my bank papers, my pension and my work papers to file out of the pile. The rest went in again.

It took the better part of two hours, I think, interspersed with chatting, playing select songs on YouTube and printing salary letters from the Sogeti intranet, until I was done. The state of filing in my bank books is a good indication of when last I sorted through the papers. The last papers I cleared away in the books was dated 21-01-2009. After twelve months, it's high time I'd clear some stuff away again! No wonder stuff was piling up...

I do neatly pay my bills, but it's just the filing that piles up. At least I've done the big things, all that's left are the numerous small things. Invoices from webshops where I bought clothes (should I keep those?) and warranty papers from my monitor and new keyboard (definitely keep those!) as well as letters from the NS about my travelling card, letters from my bike insurance, the bill from the rucumbent bicycle store... an assortment of weird letters I'll have some trouble filing.

I used to get a lot more letters from the IBG (now DUO) as well, but since they don't pay for my studies anymore it's been reduced to a yearly insight in the student debt I've raked together so far.
And there's only one letter from the taxes saying they assume my situation hasn't changed, and that since I didn't have to pay extra or receive money back from the taxes, I won't have to file a tax report this year. I might just decide to fill it out to see if everything's correct, but this will save me from a lot of stress as April first approaches.

Let's see if I can file the rest into my folders tonight!

Comments

[muizenstaartje.livejournal.com]

My filing system is "put everything in one drawer and sort it out later". I think it has become "later", because I don't think I can cram more paper in that drawer. XD

A clean and orderly home is a clean and orderly head. I often notice that when I put off certain tasks to do later, they stay in my head bothering me, making me feel stressed or pressured until I just do it and then I feel fine as if it never bothered me. They are just not fun to do and that keeps me putting them off.

Taxes assume your situation hasn't changed even after closing DG?

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

I never received any income from Dolle Griet, so for my personal situation that doesn't count. Even so, if I did it would probably not have changed. If I've neatly calculated taxes in 2008, then even a payrise will probably not change the fact that I calculated it well and I don't have to pay any additional fees.

Once we do get our fiscal dire straits straightened out I assume I'll receive an amount of money from the DG accounts. However, I've not yet received an answer from the taxes on my letter that we quit and that I'd like to straighten out our fiscal accounts (which I sent a couple of weeks back). Once we do sort everything out there, it'll probably count as income for 2010, not 2009. And there's also something called "stakingskorting" which is a tax-free amount you're entitled to take out of your business one time only. But we'll see about that once the taxpeople have finally figured out that yes, we've quit being a business.

[twilightbanana.livejournal.com]

My paperwork system consists of two trays: to-do, and to-file. The contents of the to-file tray will get filed into my binders...eventually. The to-do tray is checked often to make sure I'm not missing payments or anything like that. Once I've finished something form the to-do tray it either gets moved to the to-file tray, or it gets tossed.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

My to-do is also known as my desk. My to-file is a tray. Once it overflows, stuff gets filed. When I cleared out my desk and tray to check for DG stuff, I filed everything in a low box. But the box is enough reason to start filing again!