Remember the paperless office? Didn't happen! Everyone is mobbed by paper, every day. It takes bravery and consistency and ruthlessness to defeat it.

1. Paper is your enemy
How to win the battle against
the paper in your life

2. Paper wants to take over your life.
It seeps into every crevice and
spontaneously generates over night.

3. Like kudzu, it seeks to cover every available
surface.
It skulks in a small pile on your desk and
then stealthily creeps sideways when you
aren't looking.

4. Gangs of paper line up on your dining
table and dare you to mess with them.
They jeer.

5. Kitchen counter piles smirk at you as
you pass by.
Paper knows you are helpless and that it
is now in control. Resistance is futile.

6. Wait! It doesn't have to be that way!
But you must be willing to wage war
against paper.
Pick your battles.

7. Be on the defensive by preventing paper from coming
inside at all.
That means
• canceling subscriptions,
• getting off junk mail and catalog lists,
• signing up for electronic statements from your bank,
• not printing out material from the Internet.
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8. Take the offensive and rout
old magazines and
newspapers, even if you
haven't read them.
Don't let your file cabinets
harbor paper you don't truly
need.
Get ruthless about what
paper is really important and
necessary and drive back the
rest into the recycling.

9. Peacefully coexist with
paper by confining it to
trays, identifiable piles
and files.
Paper can stay around
as long as you know
what it is and where it
is.
Make sure it's
contributing by being
useful or necessary.

10. The war on paper may go on forever, so
gird your loins to deal with it every day.
With practice, using these techniques will
help you hold the fort easily.
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
― Albert Einstein

11. You don’t have to wage the battle alone!
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