For the last 3 months, I’ve pretty much done very little around my home. I didn’t realize that what was going on in the world was having that much of an impact on my life. I was depressed & never realized it.
A couple of days ago, something stirred in me & I realized just how bad I’d let things go. I have to get back on track & I’m starting with a single drawer in my kitchen.
I learned how to do this years ago, when I was 16 & I worked at a restaurant. The nice thing about doing this is that is saves so much time in the mornings & keeps the utensils clean.
I have a habit of jotting down ideas while I’m sitting at my desk. The only problem with that is that I jot the ideas down on just about anything that’s handy. When my desk was filled with post-it-notes, index cards, scrap paper, I had a panic attack. It was overwhelming. I needed to find a way to have all of those ideas organized & easily accessible. This is what I came up with;
I started with a 2″ binder that I’d gotten at Walmart, some pocket dividers, tabs, card stock, page protectors & some notebook paper. I copied all of those little scraps of papers (filled with my ideas) onto notebook paper.
I can’t tell you how much I love how much this project has helped me. I can now find ideas easily & they’re organized by Season & Holidays!
Click on the link below to see how I did this!
Happy Creating everyone!
This is another in my Filing With Binders series. As a crafter, I use a lot of colored paper as well as Card Stock. I used to keep in in stacks, but sunlight can discolor it & it gets dusty. Organizing the paper stacks into binders took care of that problem. All of my colored paper is now neatly put away in a filing drawer & I can get to it easily.
If you’re not familiar with this series, you can find it here, here, here, here & here.
What do you do with all of the product warranties that you have for every single thing in your home? They take up so much room in your home & trying to find the one you need can be frustrating, to say the least. Most of mine were originally in hanging file folders, but once I started to use binders to organize my papers, this was the next logical step.
This is another project in my Filing With Binders series. I can’t begin to tell you how happy I am since I started to organize using binders. It was so nice to put a mess into a binder. It’s easy to find and easy to access.
Another project in my quest to get my life organized.
This entire project was started because I had the flu & couldn’t get out to get my best friend a birthday card. We have been friends for 40 years so she understood, but I can’t tell you how badly I felt. This will never happen again, thanks to this binder. It was so easy to put together & everything is now right at my fingertips.
I don’t like filing. There’s no other way to say it. The file drawer looks wonderful at the beginning of the year, but by the middle of the year, the files get messy & when you’re in a hurry, it’s hard to find the things that you’re looking for. When they become disorganized & you can’t find things, tempers become short & pressure builds. I’ve been known to have more than one panic attack because of these disorganized files. There had to be a better way.
I’ve always liked binders. I think I got hooked on them when I was in college. Each class had it’s own color coded binder with all of the relevant subcategories. Because of these binders, I never had an assignment that I couldn’t find, I always found my notes for upcoming tests & I always knew where my reference material was. It was organized & I felt comfortable with it. This is how the ‘light bulb’ came on. I would organize my household files into binders.
This is a little book that I started carrying in my purse because in all honesty, I could never remember the number for my vacuum cleaner bags. (They say the memory is the first to go, lol) I used to keep index cards in my purse with numbers & sizes of the items that I purchase often. Needless to say, the pile of cards was starting to get thick & taking up way too much room in my purse. I needed a new way to organize all of the information that was on those cards. The solution? A small hard backed notebook.
Usually, once I get something organized, it stays that way. But the area under my kitchen sink was driving me nuts. The biggest culprit was all of the boxes of food wrap. I’d pull one out, and the rest of them would go where ever they wanted to go. I needed something to corral them. I’ve been searching on Pinterest, YouTube & the Internet. I couldn’t find anything that I liked. I thought about doing the stack of fence posting that Alejandra Costello used, but I didn’t think it would work for the area that I had. Here’s what I came up with:
