Grab it and go shelf

Oh. My.

Laura from I’m an Organizing Junkie linked to me. Thats like…HUGE! And, it’s from a post I did back in 2006.

Here’s my website traffic for the last 30 days, take note of yesterdays hits…..237!

Wow.

It’s good timing, too, because I’ve wanted to post another efficiency post for a while, but didn’t have time to gather the goods until now.

Our mud room is probably my favorite room in our house in terms of organization. I know where everything is in that room. It’s the room thats between the garage and the kitchen. Hubs and I always come into the house through the garage, so I did my best to organize this room so we’d have a place to dump our things when we got home. I also know I’d need a place to put things that needed to leave the house.

Here’s my Grab-it-and-go shelf. I keep my purse here so I always know where it is- anything I have to return to a friend, need to take into work, or need to mail also goes on this shelf.

The drawers pull out and I store all kinds of goodies in them, but mostly my iPod running gear and winter accessories (scarves, hats, gloves, etc).

I recently added note cards to the organizational theme of the room. The door into the room from the garage is a metal door, so magnets work very well to hang my notes.

I started by purchasing a cloth pencil bag that already had magnets in it, then I loaded the bag up with a few pens, a marker and notecards. I hung the bag on the back of the door, so as we’re leaving the house, we can see any notes we left for ourselves.

I made some note cards that I know we’ll use often, such as “Board Meeting today” or “Cooper Camp today!”

The other day, I needed the Trash day reminder AND I had to remember to take in the cupcakes I made for a friend’s birthday, so I added another magnet and keep it on the door:

It’s great having a reminder system like this thats so…in my face! It works really well for me.

Maybe in 2010, Laura will link to this post

March 27th, 2008 Posted by Jessica | Efficiency Tips, Life | 3 comments