I’m trying to reduce our stuff this year. To start out on the right foot, I decided to tackle something small scale before moving onto more chaotic messes. {Namely our basement. Gulp.} Our boys received a few new movies, Wii games and music CD’s for Christmas, and the bins in our entertainment console were beginning to overflow. Handy Hubby had the grand idea to take everything out of their original cases and organize them into folders. Brilliant. A trip to Walmart for three $2 zippered CD cases {we already had one on hand} and I was in business. First, I whittled down the collection to only those items that we still watch, play and listen to. Then I emptied every single movie {only 2 of them were non-G-rated}, Wii game and CD from its packaging…
…slipped them into corresponding folders {Layne even helped!} and labeled each folder with a silver Sharpie…
I had an inkling to alphabetize everything, but, let’s be honest, my 3-year-old isn’t going to put stuff back in alphabetical order. And that’s the whole point…to give the boys {and Handy Hubby and I} a quick and easy way to put things away. So, I nixed the A-Z idea. Our entertainment console is breathing a little easier.
I am too. Especially since this little organization project only took about 15 minutes and cost $6.
PS – I still need to find a green way to get the empty packages off my hands. I tried donating them to our local library, but it’s a small library that doesn’t carry movies so they wouldn’t accept the movie cases. Any ideas from the peanut gallery?
images: all Dana Miller for House*Tweaking
DIY, kid-friendly, organization