The rally is over and we're staying one more night here at Champoeg (along with one or two other stragglers). I cannot get enough of this golden landscape. It makes me so happy.
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The rally is over and we're staying one more night here at Champoeg (along with one or two other stragglers). I cannot get enough of this golden landscape. It makes me so happy.
(Posted by Laura)
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Beautiful…nothing like the sweet light of autumn 🙂
Hello Laura.
Thank you so much for having such an amazing and inspirational blog. My dream is to one day be doing exactly what you are doing and every time I need to remind myself that it is possible, I read your blog and dream. I have a question regarding “paper” in one’s lives. How do you control and organize all of the “paper” that gets into your life. From postal mail, to bills, to receipts, to tax related paperwork, to all those things one needs to keep, etc. I am curious to know how you have your Airstream office setup so that all this “paperwork” doesn’t take control? I feel that it is already so hard to do it in my apartment, I can’t even begin to imagine how it would be if I were to live full time in an Airstream. Do you scan everything you need to keep? Do you shred what you don’t need to keep? Do you keep your important documents at home and not in the Airstream? Do you have an online postal mail account? I would love to know how it is you deal with all of this since your Airstream seems to always look amazingly organized, minimalistic yet warm and cozy all at the same time!
Thank you so much!
Your fan,
Rita
Rita,
Thank you SO MUCH for your really sweet comments. Organized, minimalist, and cozy all at the same time is my goal, for sure.
I’ll tell you, the main thing we like about the airstream is the lack of paper. We have most of our bills set up to automatically pay from our checking account. We’ve gone paperless on most statements and things like that, and we don’t get our postal mail while we’re away. Since we’re spending half time in the Airstream, and usually not longer than a month or two at a time, we keep important things at home and when we’re traveling, we have a friend who gets our mail from the post office once a week and lets us know if there’s anything pressing we need to deal with (plus, deposits checks!) Most mail besides bills and checks and tax stuff is junk, and I’d rather not get it at home either. But when we get home, we spend an hour or so going through things and filing them or trashing them appropriately.
Our publishing business is internet-based, so we don’t have much paper there. My photography business is mainly studio and computer (or makeshift studio on the road) and I save any printing for when I’m at my studio. Over our Airstream dinette in the cupboard, we have a bin each, and that’s where we put anything we accumulate on the road, but honestly we’ve gotten much more minimal with “stuff” when we travel.
We actually set up a cool system at home that seems to be reducing the ever-growing paper blob. We attached four of those single, wall folder holder things in our office, one for me, one for Kevin, one with that month’s file folder (receipts, etc.), and one for mail we bring in but don’t feel like dealing with right away. (I really think you need systems that fit your personality as it is, rather than idealized systems where you need to change for them to work.) Hence, the “lazy” basket. Anyway, it works pretty well for us.
Well, this is probably way more info that you wanted, but there it is. 🙂
Thanks again for writing!
Laura