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On Sundays, I am sharing how I organize our family’s important documents. A complete overview of my 3-box system can be viewed by clicking on this link. We are organizing Box 1 and have already addressed the first category: Credit Report/Card Documents. We began the second category of Important Personal Documents last week, and continue to add documents to this fourth slot in an accordion file.

After our family birth certificates, I have copies of our driver’s licenses. I made about 5-6 copies of the front and back of each of our licenses. These copies have saved me time when applying for jobs, opening a bank account, and for proof for insurance. I also keep the copies in case we are victims of theft. If I lose my purse or someone steals Paul’s wallet, we will have our license number to report.

I have used a paper clip to hold Paul’s copies together, another clip to hold copies of my license together, and then a final clip to holding all the copies together. Having them organized in this way makes getting to one copy very easy.

Additional items you may place here would be any correspondence from the DMV and renewal notices, payments, and receipts. I keep renewal payment receipts until I receive my new license. Once the new license has been received, I shred the receipt and renewal documents.

The entire pack of photocopies and DMV information is placed in the fourth file slot of my accordion file, ready to be accessed when needed.

See, I kept my promise. This discussion was less frustrating than waiting at the DMV.