This giveaway is now closed. The winner is Stephanie – congratulations!
The next giveaway just makes my organizing heart flutter. The Neat Company believes you shouldn’t have to work to use your information. They’ve developed intelligent products that transform information into something that works for you. Perfect for busy home managers.
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Their products free the information that’s trapped on paper—so you can secure it, organize it, and use it. When your information is transformed, you are too—from cluttered to confident, from overwhelmed to accomplished.
The whole point of their products is to keep less paper. After all, what we really want is the information on the paper, not the paper itself.
NeatReceipts is a hardware/software combo that allows users to scan, organize and digitize all their paper receipts and financial documents, and automates the tax preparation process. It is fully compatible with Turbo Tax, Quicken and QuickBooks, and the IRS accepts scanned images of receipts (you never know when that might be important).
Think of it as the digital filing cabinet – you can save, track and manage your information without the paper. And one Simple Mom reader will win a NeatReceipts!
Here’s How To Win:
1. Leave a comment on this post, answering this question – What’s your biggest organizing challenge at home?
2. To get a second entry – and a second entry on all the giveaways this week – subscribe to the Simple Mom feed and email me the movie quote at the bottom of any post in your feed reader or email inbox (there is only one quote for all the giveaways). Send it to simplemomblog (at) gmail (dot) com, and put the quote directly in the subject line. The body of the email won’t be read. And you only need to email me the quote once in order to get a second entry for all the week’s giveaways.
3. Finally, to get a third entry, post or tweet about this giveaway – if you use the URL of this post, I’ll receive it – no need to email me.
This giveaway is only eligible to US and Canadian residents.
This giveaway will end this Monday, February 2 at noon EST. I hope you win!
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My biggest challenge: We have full time jobs and also run a company from our home. So, it is is a mess to keep the desk straight with our bills, company bills, real-job items. It is definitely the worst area in my home.
All the paperwork…I really struggle with keeping it all organized no matter how hard I seem to try.
I have so much clutter that keeps accumulating on my desk! No matter how much I clean, it seems to be the catch all place for everything!
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Mail – it drives me crazy because it stacks up and we cannot process it and file it immediately.
Paperwork is definitely our biggest challenge in our house. There are lots of important papers stuffed in kitchen drawers and closets because we don’t have a good system for keeping track of them all!
My biggest challenge is my home office. It’s a separate room, complete with DOOR, so my dear loved ones (mom, hubster, like to HELP me clean the house every once in a great while and throw the excess “I-don’t-know-where-this-goes-so-I’ll-just-put-it-in-here-for-now” SHtuff in MY office. I also have homeschooling stuff, baby stuff (from our new addition that’s now 5 mos old) and business stuff since I also have a home business!! Which consists of an entire wall of shelves that hold…baby stuff…for the diaper cakes/baskets for the business. And there’s paperwork….gobs and googles of paperwork. And stuff. Oh. my. word. STUFF!!! It’s insane. And depressing. I don’t like to be in there because there’s too much STUFF and clogs my thought processes completely!! BOO! HOWEVER! I have resolved to spend this weekend cleaning said nasty pit OUT with the help of the hubster (who will do the heavy lifting and the babysitting, yay!!) So…any ya’ll in my neck of the woods, swing on by and help this poor mama out…PLEASE!! =P
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my biggest organizing challenge is storage and time. I have three kids under the age of 5, so a nice safe place to store things would be awesome! I hope I win!!
Paper, paper is all I see, miles of paper, oh will you please help me!
I have the hardest time decluttering. Between my husband and I we are both little packrats on a different level and together it is not good. I would love something like this. Thanks for the super giveaway!
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Paper clutter is by far my biggest organizational challenge. I’ve tried many things, and none of them have worked for me. Hopefully just getting rid of the paper all together will do some good. Hope I win!
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My biggest organizational problem at home….ahh there are sooo many. I would have to say toys and our basement in general…our goal this weekend is to start emptying out our basement of all the junk we haven’t touched in the 5yrs we have lived here. this scanner would be a wonderful way to organize my husbands garbage bag of receipts.
Maintaining is my biggest challenge – keeping things organized once you finish cleaning.
This is a great idea! My biggest challenge is the mail which just seems to multiply once I bring home!
My worst paperwork organizing dilemma is my son’s medical paperwork.
My biggest organizing problem is my closet that I worked on last weekend and now I need to declutter the paperwork on the desk again. This is really neat, I would love to have this to help with my organization of receipts. Also, so many times those printed receipts fade away in a few months. Love this technological device.
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My biggest organizing challenge is my husband. Need I say more?
I’m a stay at home mom who works part time doing product demonstrations at local stores. Each company requires us to make copies of all our paperwork, which I hold on to to make sure I am paid for each job completed. As organized as I am, we live in a small house and at the end of the year my file cabinet is overflowing with paper…from my demos as well as our household documents. What a fabulous way to have everything I need, without the paper itself. Not to mention the paper I can recycle, the trees I can save (so I don’t have to make paper copies) and help our earth be a little cleaner!! Is it compatible with Macs??
My biggest issue is the incoming mail – every day, I get more paper to sort.
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My biggest challenge – I still haven’t gotten my kitchen the way I want it!
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Paper clutter in the form of: recipes, kid artwork/school papers, articles from magazines I want to save for some reason or other and I have no good system for any of it! What a great giveaway!
My biggest organiaing challenge is my desk. I have been taking papers to work to scan, but some stuff gets missed, and I still feel like there are some papers that I have to hang onto, like tax returns, and I am having issues with others in my house putting stuff on my desk that does belong there.
It would have to be the paper/mail…it keeps coming!
I guess just all the paper clutter that comes through. Between 3 boys and their school papers, our business mail, our personal mail, etc. , it can get out of control. I do feel like I keep a pretty good handle on it, but it can get insane pretty quickly, if I don’t work at it.
My biggest clutter challenge is definitely paper! And especially receipts!
Without a doubt PAPERWORK!!! My husband and I just talked about this!
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My biggest organizing challenge would definitely be office–paperwork between the kids and 2 parents who work from home is a mess I have yet to find a system that work for all of us!
Finding a home for everything–especially paperwork!!! I so could use this!
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Paperwork. I homeschool so I have those additional papers. It is coming out of my ears. I usually keep on top of it, but a day or two of letting it go and chaos starts to brew.
I have been dreaming of something like this for years!!! I’m glad someone tackled the idea
My biggest organizing challenge is the home office! because of the papers, I just don’t know what to keep, what’s okay to toss and everything in between! what a GREAT giveaway.
Papers and bills most definitely present the biggest challenge here! They end up on the dining room table and then we have no where to eat!!
Seriously, like everyone else, it’s the paper. With four kids at three different schools, in four different activities, there is always more paper than I can handle. The catch-all place? One are of my kitchen counter. Sometimes I feel like the paper will come alive and take over the house. Hepl1
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My home office.
It has been on my mental to organize file for longer than I can remember. Whenever I see a perfectly organized and functional office I swoon.
You name it… it’s a problem. I live in a house that’s over 100 years old and all of our stuff just doesn’t fit.
My biggest organizational challenge is truly the endless paper. I am good at filing the basic bills but it is keeping up with all of the other paper and receipts. I have seen the Neat Receipts on other sites and wondered if this would help me – I’d love to find out!
My desk is a disaster… I hate all this paper!
I Sooooo need this…..with VA papers, trying to get the house refinanced, medical bills and the everyday paperwork that fills the house…this item would be a huge blessing!!!
I had never heard of neat receipts….but I will be checking it out now!!
Thanks so much for sharing this!!!!
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paper, always paper. what to keep, what to throw away, where to keep it-a constant battle! thanks!
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Mail mail mail. I’ve tried everything and I can’t seem to keep it under control.
My clothing closet is the hardest thing for me!
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I think it has to be paper. Between home management, apartment management and homeschooling, I have miles of piles of paper. This would be perfect for me!
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Hands down paper work!!! Sheesh, I have never found the perfect solution.
My biggest organizing difficulty is finding the time to do it. Everything from tidying the throw pillows to sorting the mail. Especially the mail! Even the “real” mail stacks up surprisingly quickly.
Honestly, my biggest challenge is not having papers on the computer. I’m great with organizing when it comes to online, but I just hate paperwork so much and I don’t have room around here for any of it. Plus I’m picky, and if I’m going to file something, I need a new file cabinet, folders, labels, the works. But a computer would be so easy cause that’s all free.
So please enter me in this contest!
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Along with several other commenters here, I am often overwhelmed by all of the papers that my son brings home from daycare. Although I am very proud of his coloring skills, my refrigerator can only hold so many pictures.
I’ve started scanning the really stellar ones and posting them on our family blog. That way, grandparents and other friends can see his work. Then, I throw the pictures away. Is that awful?
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I’m pretty organized but yet there are always papers that mysteriously pile up on my desk and don’t quite fit into my organization.
So fun! So neat! My biggest organizing challenge would be what this would help with! Paper! bills! mail! Does this machine come with a mind changing mechanism that can change bad habits of stacking paperwork too?
Thanks so much! Love your site!!!
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My biggest organizing challenge is knowing where to put everything, knowing what to keep or throw away, and just the fact that I hate filing and paperwork!
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What a fabulous product!
The finances/bills/mail is definitely my biggest challenge. Gah.
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Figuring out a working budget…I always make an unrealistic one, and then end up completely blowing it. If I knew where I spent money, I could make something workable.
time!
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The masses of paper are my biggest organizational challenge: Receipts, bills, documents, etc. My filing system isn’t working.
Definitely paper clutter! The kitchen island is the dying ground for piles of bills, receipts, kid’s artwork… sigh, I get overwhelmed just thinking about it!
My biggest organizing challenge is not having a good spot to put the mail/papers/etc. that come into our house DAILY! I would love to put together a station to organize all these papers better….
This machine looks AWESOME! Thanks for doing this giveaway (and all the other ones this week!)!
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i’d love to get rid of paper!!!
keeping our desk clean…ew!
All of the papers…receipts, bills, junk mail….you name it. My office is a disaster right now! And don’t forget the papers I have to grade! YIKES!!!
I’ve got the laundry down to a science. The kitchen gets the most attention, so it stays manageable . But I run a multitude of businesses, most of them non-profit (volunteer work), and it’s darn near impossible to stay on top of. If I spend the time on paperwork, other things fall behind, but I’ve learned that prioritizing keeps me in line. I spend a good 2 hours every single night, after dinner time, family time, and husband time (usually after midnight) ‘playing with papers’. And I’m still drowning in it!
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I’m having a hard time narrowing that down! It’s everything… too much stuff in a small home. Since a new baby “took over” my office, dealing with paper and all that paper and office stuff is definitely towards the top of my needs to be purged/organized list. I’m learning a lot about simplifying here – thank you!
Papers!!! I cannot keep our papers organized at all. And thanks to my almost 2 year old who loves to go through papers, its getting even more difficult to keep the paper clutter to a minimum.
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oh, I so need this. please please PLEASE!
Papers are my biggest challenge, we have boxes and boxes of them and I have no idea what I am ever doing with them. That and art supplies, at least the art supplies are fun!
My biggest organizing challenge is myself. I hate paperwork…I have no clue what to save where to put it, how long to keep it. I could REALLY use some help!
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Hardest part of cleaning up is really just to pick up after myself right away. If I can do that, I can avoid the full-day on weekend cleaning project that I MUST do before I go crazy and/or any guest shows up… Getting a file system going has really been a life saver. But if all that clutter can also go with neat receipt! perhaps there’s a chance for me yet to stop being a pack rat…
Filing papers. I have piles all over the house of receipts, magazines, bills, etc. It’s a mess.
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toys!
Paper paper everywhere
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Receipts, coupons, anything paper is the BIGGEST challenge! This is the best little invention for storage of receipts and other paper documents that we need to keep!!!
Paper, paper, and more paper!!
My biggest challenge is definitely keeping track of receipts!
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PAPERWORK!
It comes in, I get overwhelmed and stuff it in the armoire, until a landslide occurs, and then I have to deal with it. I always have stuff that needs filed but no time to file it. This product would solve the filing issue and space that paperwork takes up in my little home.
My biggest organizing challenge is managing all the paperwork from my husband’s business. As a SAHM, with two boys and one on the way I really have a hard time organizing all the paperwork!!! I think NeatReceipts is an amazing invention. I have been looking at buying one for two years. This is an awesome giveaway! I hope I win!
All the junk mail we get every day.
Paper! The stacks! This would be great! Kim R.
my biggest organizing challenge is my husband. i’d take a picture of his “office space” in our family room but don’t know how to attach that to a comment. his desk is a pile upon pile of papers that we’ve tried to organize but just never stays that way. combine that with his technology addiction and the computers he’s fixing for friends, the consulting company he’s thinking of starting, we need help. please, internet powers-that-be and whoever is deciding the outcome of this contest, if i never win anything in my life ever again, please please please let me win this?!
Keeping up with the school papers/art work that come home. It doesn’t seem to stop.
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Paper, paper, and more paper. I had no idea you could use these things at home!
Finding a place for all the stuff!!! Too much stuff or not enough house.
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My challenge is keeping up with all sales records and receipts, and expense receipts – on regular basis. This sounds like a great solution!
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We run a charity and live in a home with 13 people – all involved in the charity as well (http://www.heroholiday.com) so we end up with TONS of paper clutter. It’s hard to keep all of the receipts separated and organized and to keep regular household paper clutter separate from all of the work paper stuff. My husband spends HOURS each month organizing receipts, entering them into his computer, etc. This product looks like it would be AMAZING for us! I think I’m going to have to look into it a little more. Thanks for sharing!
You guessed it – the PAPER. It get so out of control so fast and takes up so much space. This would be awesome to have. It would be SO nice to have those images and shred the rest. Thanks!
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hum… the most challenging is the pile of odd and end papers that don’t seem to have a file in my file drawer. They drive me crazy! This product is perfect. I could scan them and throw them away!
Definitely small toys that don’t get put away and roll under couches and tables.
Have you been spying on me? My office is frightening.
Clutter is killing me! It seems that there really are so many papers to keep track of. I have tried cutting back and doing more on the web but apparently it is not enough yet!
Shanna
My biggest organizing challenge is definitely all the paper – but really I would say that it is finding *time* to deal with it, no matter what system I use.
my biggest organizing problem is the LACK OF SPACE…including filing space. I have 2 square totes filled to the brim with files….tax documents, contracts, receipts, etc…all just sitting in my spare room with no where the put them!
What a great giveaway! My challenge is exactly this: I put important receipts in various places and then I can’t find them when I need them.
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My biggest organizational challenge is just not having storage space. You know the saying about having a place for everything….well I don’t!
Plus I’m a packrat. I’m bad about putting stuff off, including reading mail and getting rid of magazines, so stuff just piles up.
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The receipts are driving me crazy! My husband insists on saving all of them, and he stores them in shoe boxes:-(
Actually, my biggest organizing challenge is papers!! I keep too many different pieces of papers with all types of information on them!
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The paper that seems to multiply on my kitchen counter! I just can’t find a system that works for my family. I would love to win this:o)
Papers, most definitely! They just don’t quit……
Papers! Papers from school, work, mail, church, stores. It’s all too much!
Ugh…the dreaded filebox…and the toys. Oh, the toys.
our third floor junk room is my biggest organization challenge. you have heard of a junk drawer, well we have an entire room. nightmare!!!
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The paper trail, definitely. This product is so cool!
Do I have to limit it to one? LOL Right now my biggest challenge is the pile of paper that needs to be filed. Most need a file folder made, and I’ve been to lazy to just get it done. My normal challenge is my recipes. I wonder if I could adapt any of their programs to scan and organize all my recipes?
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All the paper clutter…it’s killing me. It seems like I will never be able to manage it all. As soon as I find a home for everything..there is another stack of paper waiting…agh.
This would be a LIFESAVER. Definately the paper – out of control!!!!!!!!!!!
Kids stuff for sure…toys, laundry etc…The paper bills and reciepts are also a hassle…
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Our mail is impossible to organize. Not even the junk mail…the stuff we have to keep!
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