Wishing you a Happy New Year, plus a NeatDesk Desktop Scanner & Digital Filing System giveaway to keep you organized going into 2012!

We had a highly disorganized, hectic, fun-filled Christmas weekend this year. We ran from one place to the next starting Christmas Eve morning, baked cookies in between, showed up late once because Ole decided the odd warm weather required a Christmas Day motorcycle ride (worth it) and stuffed ourselves silly on prime rib, shrimp dip, Christmas cookies and more. Then we collapsed on Monday morning after midnight when we returned home.
I woke up Monday and looked at the carnage that was left in the wake of Christmas. In the midst of trying to declutter, organize and make my house feel like a home again, I keep thinking about all the paper that we store. Receipts for goods purchased, school forms for the kids, recipes printed off and shoved into binders or, more often, between the pages of other cookbooks that I am using simultaneously.

Enter the NeatDesk. I finally opened my NeatDesk after months of looking at it in its box. Stupid of me to not have done it sooner, really. I have the ability to scan and store receipts, doing away with the clumsy piles that so often occupied my desk. I can do the same with teacher correspondence, recipes I cut from magazines and more.
By far the most fun piece of the NeatDesk High Speed Scanner is its ability to extract information from my scanned in information and put it into a digital format, making filing easy and gathering information later on more than simple.
The Neat Company is letting me give away a NeatDesk High Speed Scanner & Digital Filing System to one of my readers to help you get organized in the New Year, too! It means less time cleaning and fretting and organizing and decluttering and more time spend with your family, enjoying them. Here’s to a year filled with special moments and a simpler life.
THE PRIZE
One lucky reader will win a NeatDesk Desktop Scanner and Digital Filing System!
HOW TO ENTER TO WIN
1. Leave a comment. What is one of your goals for 2012?
2. Follow @FoodforMyFamily and @NeatCompany on Twitter and tweet the following, and come back and let me know you did:
Get organized for the New Year. Enter to win a @NeatDesk Scanner (ARV$499) from @FoodforMyFamily http://su.pr/27A6jC #giveaway
THE RULES:
This giveaway will run until Sunday, January 1st at 11:59 p.m. ET and is open to all U.S. residents. A winner will be chosen at random using Random.org from all eligible entries. Each reader has 4 chances to win by completing the above tasks and leaving a separate comment for each entry method completed. Chosen winner must respond within 48 hours of notification to claim their prize. Good luck!
This giveaway is sponsored by The Neat Company. Tips, opinions and random thoughts are 100% mine.












To get organized and run a marathon!
To handle each piece of paper once and make immediate decisions about what to do with them!
My goal is to conquer the clutter in my house!!
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I know it sounds fake but since we’ve around home from our christmas visit home (the other home – aka parents’ house; home is always my house and whichever relative I’m staying with too) I’ve been plotting how to eliminate paper from my house. I need to reduce these piles and even the storage devoted to filed stuff. That and keeping up with keeping my house clean. I do hope you report back on how the neat scanner is working for you in a couple months.
I must get organized and more efficient!!
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I follow the Neat Company and Food for My Family on Facebook & Twitter
I tweeted the giveaway on Twitter
I follow the Neat Company and Food for My Family on Twitter
My husband has been wanting something like this; I know it’s a great idea but we haven’t sprung for one yet….
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