don t let mail take over your home by setting up a system for managing your mail for the mail that makes it into your home it s very important to develop a system that will make sure you get what you need when you need it set the stage designate an area of the home where you will sort through the mail this can be a desk a side table near the main entryway or on the kitchen counter make sure that you have enough space to shuffle and sort through the mail if you can keep scissors and a bin nearby create a system once you ve selected a place create a storage system to organise the paperwork that will keep the area tidy three basic categories you can use are to pay to review and to file if you have the space you should think of adding letter trays and storage boxes to give you more filing solutions use the system and make it routine as soon as you get home open the mail once you ve opened the envelope decide which category the mail should go in get into the habit of doing this every day and you ll find yourself sorting through your mail with ease don t be tempted to dump the pile of mail on your counter and promise to return to it later just get it over with there and then