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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.

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Comments

  55. My goal is one blog post each week (once I dig myself out from the overwhelming pile of paper thanks to a year that brought us a new baby, new jobs, new school, a cross-country move with 2 very young children, building a new house and living in the in-laws basement!!)

    Happy New Year!

  68. I just liked THE NEAT COMPANY on FB as well. Seriously, this is what I’ve been needing for a long time. I’m so glad GOD made smart people to invent awesome stuff.

  77. Keep up with my fitness regimine. But mostly to be at peace with the mess (controlled chaos) created by my family and instead enjoy them in spite of it.

  87. The closet in the family room has two file cabinets in it. One of my goals for 2012 is to get rid of one of them to clear some floor space in that closet. The NeatDesk Scanner would certainly help with that.

  91. My goal for 2012 is to get organized, I’ve got boxes to the ceiling and a desk piled upwards of 8″ high in my office =( Plus I’m hoping to get a room mate this year, so I can NOT look like a hoarder…

  106. I already follow you so I didn’t do that again
    I have twittered the get organized message
    I have followed you and neat on FB

    My goal for 2012 is to take control of my life through organization, weight loss, and time management.

  116. What an awesome giveaway. Organizing the paper and reciepts are at the top of my New Years list. As a child care provider, every reciept that comes Sometimes it needs to be in two different places for our records. I am anxious to learn more about this!

  117. One of my goals in 2012 is to do well in all my nursing courses! One of these would be great for scanning homework assignments and other important documents! LOVE IT!

  155. One of my goals, perhaps the most important, is to finally GET ORGANIZED! I used to be skilled at that, but over the years I’ve become lax and definitely more and more less organized. It’d be wonderful to have the tools and a practical, workable system with which to put things “in order” not only for my own personal needs here at home, but also to help out my husband with this trucking paperwork.

  170. I want to become free from the materialism that is so easy to fall prey to in our advertising centered lives – recycle the papers! I like Food foe My Family and Neat Company on Facebook. Happy New Year!!!

  172. I would love to get my classroom files in order by scanning them and recycling the paper. Bye bye all those icky file cabinets that take up comfy reading space. Thanks for your blog,

  173. Besides the usual “get into shape” blah, blah, blah…. I am going to pass my LCSW state exam and become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (for which I will really need a good system for taking care of paperwork 🙂

  194. One of my goals for 2012 is to start a memory jar for the year with my hubby. Instead of keeping a journal which can be a bit time consuming, we’re going to write on post-it notes to remember the best moments of each day!!

  200. A few of my goals are to get fit and healthy, get organized, buy my first home, and finally start my own blog/small home business. I am terrifed and excited! This Scanner and more importantly the filing system would be a HUGE step foraward for me. ^^

  212. We have a couple of boxes of papers we’ve moved at least once. Now that we might be moving again, my goal is to toss, scan or file these boxes so we don’t have to pack them up again!

  216. 2012 Goal – to declutter! I don’t feel like I am present (too distracted) or my home is comfortable (too many piles) for my children. Want to fix that for them!

  238. Wow, what a cool giveaway.. I wish I could participate, but I live in Canada, so I don’t qualify :-(. But I already follow you on Facebook and Twitter, not for the giveaway, but because I love this blog :-). Happy 2012, Shaina!

  257. One of my biggest goals in 2012 will to become more organized! I saw your commercial for the Neat Company and feel that this product would help me control the mounds of paperwork I seem to aquire through the year. I don’t like to throw anything away for fear I will need it one day, I am so excited to possibly win your Neat Desk scanning product. I think your product will make my life so much easier and also help me become organized and less frustrated!
    Thank you,
    Angie

  259. I would love this. We used to enter every single receipt, check, deposit, etc into Quicken, and then got behind. After 2 years of stacked up receipts I finally had to give in and admit defeat and just throw them all away.

  263. My New Year’s Resolutions are many… lose weight, eat healthier, run a 1/2 Marathon, more patience, and MORE ORGANIZED. I have been looking at this scanner and hope I win. My husband just started a new job and this would help us keep up with the paperwork associated to his new employment! Happy New Year!!

  307. 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.

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