A current user of ours recently sent an intriguing article about kid’s school documents, so we though’t we would share it with you here on our blog.
There are a lot of different ways paper infiltrates your home or office. The obvious culprits are bills, receipts, pamphlets, flyers, etc. In the article linked above, a woman tracks the influx of paper from a less suspected source, our children.
If you have kids in school, I’m sure you’ve noticed the piles of handouts, assignments, permission slips, worksheets, outlines, and syllabi that they pack up and deliver from class to your home. They seem so innocent, I know, but as a Southborough mother found out earlier this month, these kids are packing thousands of pages throughout one school year.
For the parent trying to reduce paper clutter, your own kids could be your biggest problem – dumping Spiderman backpack-loads of paper on the kitchen counter five days of the week. I remember back in middle school there was at least one handout every class and college wasn’t much better. At least a college student has a dorm to dump paper in, but middle and high schoolers probably don’t have their own filing cabinets in their rooms and so the paper inevitably ends up cluttering your home. It’s not their fault, schools simply distribute paper at an alarmingly unchecked rate.
What To Do With It All?
Kids’ paper flow is essentially the same as the influx of bills and invoices, it’s just delivered on shorter legs. Therefore, document scanning can be just as effective for kid’s documents as it is for mom and dad’s.
With OfficeDrop’s monthly scanning service, the kids can dump their paper directly into an OfficeDrop Scanvelope to be sent off for scanning before pages even hit the kitchen table. If you asked for it to be shredded, you won’t have to see those pages ever again, left to organize and delete the unwanted pages from our convenient online filing system.
Incredible, I had been researching for details about back to school worksheets and found your website. But I am glad I did. Bizarre just how we find new spots on the web.