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The Pile With Miles

Do you have a pile of paper work from your kids school, clubs, sports or PTA that is worth keeping for a few weeks but taking over your life? The small mountain on the corner of a shelf or on the desk. The one you move 100 different places during the year. I surely am not the only one that has a pile with miles. You move it because company is coming.  It is an eyesore so you move it here and then over there. You don't know what to do with it. I have a solution!     I have three kids and the paper work from outside the house is a forest full of trees. For example, the "Don't Eat This List" from the orthodontist that my oldest reads like the bible, the PTA newsletters, or the softball schedules. I don't have enough room on my refrigerator for it all. I tried to read things and throw them away as I got them but I would forget all the details. I started a pile in the kitchen one day and it was there for years. Literally! I would go through it at times and toss old m