1. Stop Receiving Regular Statements & Go Online

Sign up for online bill access & payment by going to the websites of your banks, utility companies or any company that sends you a regular paper statement and see if they have an e-option.

Most banks will allow you to stop receiving your standard bank statements and lots of companies will let you check your balances or do anything you need to get done online, but by law there are some instances where they have to send you a piece of paper.

2. Stop the Junk Mail Train

Know all those catalogs and free magazines you signed up for? Call, email or hunt them down, but ask them to stop sending you a paper catalog.

Stopping the receipt of junk mail is seriously difficult.

Even if you put yourself on the DO NOT JUNK MAIL ME lists and whatever else, you will inevitably end up getting something.

Be persistent and you will get somewhere.

Eventually.

2. Buy A Scanner and install CutePDF

Think about buying a scanner that has PDF capabilities. Having things scan as an image is nice, but PDF is better, and easier to print.

You should also install a software called: CutePDF on your PC so if you need to “keep” anything in a file that you don’t want edited, simply paste it into Microsoft Word or Notepad, and hit Print > Print to “CutePDF”, and you will have a nice PDF version of it.

Another good service to use (but I personally avoid it) is EverNote.

You can save tons of documents from online and just CutePDF them.

I have a huge honking all-in-one-printer and scanner fax machine monster, but I am thinking of buying a much smaller, lighter, usb-powered scanner.

Like this Fujitsu Scan Snap S1100 (available as of January 2011) and you can watch the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100 in action here on Youtube.

It is 12.3 ounces (WOW!) and USB-powered. I am drooling over here.. but as always, I will do my research thoroughly before I put down any hard earned cash for any device.

If I do buy it, I’ll review it, I promise. Or maybe Fujitsu wants to send me one for free?

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