Organizational Idea: Filing Clips

I was at the National Building Museum gift shop and saw some fun binder clips with things like "File" and "To Do" printed on them, like these. I liked the concept, but didn't really need a bunch of binder clips like that. Heck, I had so many binder clips at home that I didn't use. But, seeing these put a lightbulb above my head. It seemed like a good solution for my constant paper problem.


I tended to have piles of papers around often...and it drove me nuts. I'd put my bills in a paper sorter, and they would fall all over the place. I'd have a pile of things to file (I'm perpetually putting that off) as well as action items that needed me to do something with them. I decided to make my own giant binder clips, with labels printed on my labelmaker: "To Do," "To File," and "To Pay." Here's what the individual clip looks like (wee bit fuzzy...):


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I use these to contain my papers, and pin them with silver pushpins on the inside of my coat closet door. Of course, this would work just as well on a wall or bulletin board...but for me, the closet door works well.


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The best part is that it gives me a self-contained limit to how long I can allow the filing to pile up.

Comments

  1. KimSeptember 19, 2007 at 1:24 PM

    How very clever of you!!! Watch out of one of Martha's people will steal your idea & it will end up in next March's issue as a "good thing" :)

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  2. ErinFebruary 18, 2008 at 3:08 AM

    This is terrific! If you're interested, I think it would be great to have a guest post on Unclutterer about this. Feel welcome to e-mail me a few paragraphs!!

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  3. ErinFebruary 18, 2008 at 3:08 AM

    This is terrific! If you're interested, I think it would be great to have a guest post on Unclutterer about this. Feel welcome to e-mail me a few paragraphs!!

    ReplyDelete

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