Showing posts with label baskets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baskets. Show all posts

Monday, February 1, 2010

Getting Organized ~ one step at a time

Well, it's Tuesday and that means a fabulous craft of redo right?

Um, not this week. Not here anyway. I've been trying to clean and organize (not to mention laundry).

Here are a few of the things I've done to get myself more organized.


Since I enjoy trying new recipes I always have loose recipes laying around. One's I've printed off the Internet, some from you lovely bloggers and others from magazines that I've ripped out. I was tired of having piles of them with no rhyme or reason to them. So I picked up one of these handy dandy little hanging file folder holders and got organized. Check it out:


Yay! I can now just go to the correct folder and choose a recipe to try. No more searching through the piles for just the perfect chicken recipe or yummy dessert.


Here pick out a dessert ~ no more sifting through :)


Oh, and after I make it the loose recipe either gets recycled (meaning we didn't like it) or written down and then recycled.


I also use file folders to organize the many papers and schedules we get throughout the year.  This is on a bench in our mud room.

Next up ~ the endless things laying around that belong to the little ones running through the house. I felt like I was constantly either stepping on, around or running items up and down stairs all day long in my quest to keep the floors semi clean. Then I came across this tip ~ somewhere (could have been BH and G). BASKETS. I already love them. They store blankets, toys, and more toys. Now they are my dumping spots for the kid's stuff. Each night they are suppose to take their basket, clean it out and return it to it's original location. Currently I am doing very well at filling them. Now to get the kids to clean them out.... someday perhaps!


I do like the idea of them and they are pretty cute.



Currently I am working on organizing my storage, umm, I mean CRAFT room. Yes, its my little hole in the basement, but it's MY LITTLE HOLE. And it has been a MESS since Christmas. Hopefully someday soon I will have some before and afters, but this is all I've got for today!

One more thing before I go....

HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE? I'm always looking for new and fun tips :)

And don't forget to go here for some real craft and redo inspirations!




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