My attempt to stay organizing is:
A zippered binder for my keeps - 5 major sections broken down within (food, baby, pets, non-food, hba) with a zippered pencil case where I put the non-filed away. Gotta have them in the store, just in case you know.
5 Cardboard photo storage boxes filed a-z for my trade coupons that are on my haveslist. Generally there's a small shoebox of things that need to be filed but at least it's close by so I can find things fairly quickly for trades.
That's the organized part.
I also have a 4 drawer stacker unit to keep uncut inserts in. The laughable goal is to keep it empty. (although ds#2 tries to help me empty it, and tosses everything into one big pile, loose pages everywhere and no clue which insert they came from. And one day I was carrying it downstairs to work on them and the top drawer came off in my hands the rest went flying down the stairs. DH had the nerve to laugh!) I try to have one week per drawer and when any one drawer gets filled up, I have a mini meltdown and go into hyperspeed to get them all cut, added to haves and filed. Then my hyperspeed crashes and I can't look at another uncut insert for a day or two. Sometimes I just give up and give them away just so I don't have to deal with them. Right, Alphamom? LOL She loves it when she gets a goodie package from me!
I have at least 2 empty baby wipes containers also that I throw the loose extras in and I use that to put extras into trades or get them entered into the haveslist too. |