The Paper Decluttering Session Estimator
Every other room is sorted by volume, paper is sorted by decisions, the two are not related, and quoting it by the box is how you end up back in that house in March.
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What’s inside
- One workbook, six tabs: Start Here, Your Rates, The Paper Count, The Session Plan, The Routing Sheet, and Sessions Log.
- Your Rates holds every editable number in one place: your hourly rate, your session length, twelve kinds of paper each with a decisions-per-inch and a seconds-per-decision figure, sixteen job factors, and the handling times for shredding and scanning.
- The Paper Count: fourteen rows for where the paper is, what kind it is, and how you measured it, in linear inches, banker's boxes, file drawers, copy paper boxes, shoeboxes or grocery bags, then four questions about the job as a whole.
- The Session Plan builds up line by line, so every hour is traceable to one answer you gave: hours low, likely and high, sessions, three ways to price it, and the decision-load verdict.
- A routing sheet of forty rows and nine destinations with a running count of the inches still waiting on somebody's decision, and a sessions log of sixty rows of planned against actual that computes your own accuracy factor after five sessions and feeds it back into every future estimate.
Who this is for
A labeled file drawer is a morning, because the folder already is the decision. The same drawer’s worth of loose mail is a week, because every envelope is its own small judgment. You measure the containers and name the kind of paper in each, and the workbook turns that into how many separate decisions are sitting in the house, how many hours those decisions take at your own speeds, and how many sessions that honestly is.
In the sample that ships inside the file, the client is asking for three sessions and the sheet says NOT POSSIBLE, with the arithmetic that makes it so. That is a better conversation than the one where you say it feels like a lot.