I am a recovering over-keeper.  My daughter is now 25, but in the beginning, I kept everything.  I kept things because they touched my heart. Things that showed how smart she was.  Things that I thought she would want to look back at as she got older.  I even kept samples of her handwriting to document her sensory processing and neurodivergent development.  

It was a lot of papers.  And that was just one kid.

Moving into a smaller home was a wake-up call.  I just didn’t have the space to store the papers.  That was my first round of editing.  There have been several edits since then, and each has taught me something about myself and the process of deciding what’s important.

In 2017, I started my own professional organizing business.  Since then, I have worked with so many families that had this same issue.

Loose papers on countertops, stuffed in boxes in closets, and under beds.

Not being able to find the important stuff.

Living with a general sense of stress and chaos on a daily basis.

Then there were the older clients who still had all their kids’ paperwork thirty+ years later.  Boxes in the guest room closet, the garage, or the attic.  They were so burdened down with papers.

At some point, someone has to go through all those papers.  Argh, and yuk.  The longer the papers have accumulated, the more of a beat down it is.

If they had had a system of dealing with things when their kids were young, they would have had less to carry into their future.

That’s why I created The Treasure Keepers System.  As a way to deal with papers in real time, in a meaningful way.  No guilt.  No regrets.