FRIDAY FINDS: Who doesn't love F-R-E-E?

Welcome to your Friday Finds... here I will share a new product or service that I think is helpful, practical and a good use of organization!!!  Today's focus is free easy organizing ideas!

In an effort to keep with the Earth Day theme, I remembered this great list of easy organizing ideas* from Real Simple that I wanted to share with you.

Here are 17 of my favorite suggestions, oh, and did I mention that they are all FREE. Ready, here it goes...
  1. Use a wooden ladder to hang magazines or cloths.
  2. Store your spices in a drawer and label the tops for easy retrieval.
  3. Re-purpose ribbons from gifts by wrapping sets of sheets together for storing in the linen closet.
  4. Rolodex can be used in a kitchen for recipes or website passwords and log-on names.
  5. Use a desk organizer in the bathroom for those small storage items.
  6. Organize your email messages with either adding a number before each message or an (*).
  7. Ice cube trays can be used for drawer organizers.
  8. Use a tray on your desk to corral such items like a stapler, post-its or tape.
  9. Use an empty tissue box to store your plastic bags.
  10. Use a three ring binder to store instruction manuals.
  11. Wine racks can be also used for magazines.
  12. Use a cardboard box inside a tote bag and you can use it to store garden tools.
  13. Use a three tiered hanging basket in your closet for the random items.
  14. Group medicine into bags by category (head, allergy or children's) and keep in one bin.
  15. Use a lazy susan for everything... it's so versatile!
  16. Use pictures of toys on the front of kid storage bins so they can learn to be organized.
  17. Use velcro or cable ties to manage all the cords and cables.
*All of these items came directly out of the June 2008 Real Simple Low-Cost Organizing Ideas article. If I could find it online, I would totally share it with you! Enjoy!

**this awesome image was found at www.iwasateenagewebsite.com/.

Posted by Megan Spears at 4/24/2009 9:00 AM
Categories: Tips, Products, Books and Reference, Friday FINDS
 

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