My first organising project

I was very excited yesterday that I only had one child at home and no hubby as he was at work so I decided to start my first project. I have started very small in an area only 63cm x 63 cm that sits beside the store. Now, as this was the general paper collection area and we have a gas stove I was constantly worried that something was going to go up in flames one day so this had to be sorted!

This is what it looked like to begin with:

I did the following to get this sorted:

1. Put batteries in the clock and put that back in my son's room
2. Put the cough medicine in the medicine cabinet
3. Put the fire extinguisher in it's correct place
4. Put the books away in the bookshelf
5. Threw son's faulty iPhone away
6. Put suntan lotion away
7. Ate the lollies in the paper bag
8. Put rubbish in a rubbish bag - I cannot throw this away at this point as hubby may suddenly ask for something that I thought was rubbish.

This left me with papers, pens and a few odds and ends so I sorted the papers into piles. 

The papers got sorted and placed into some lovely manilla folders that I found at Warehouse Stationery for only $4 all up.  The labels are just 'shapes' that I created in Word, coloured, named and printed out on sticky lables.  Cut them out, stuck them on and put it all into the recipe book holder that I have had for ages as a catch all and it looks like this.

This left me with some pen's that needed to be sorted out into ones that worked and ones that didn't and a few odds and ends like the cheque book, envelopes, hubby's lotto scratch-its etc that for now will sit on the side until I can find something that I like to put them in.

The final reveal looks like this and I am proud of my first attempt at organising with very little money and will continue to find little projects to practice on and try not to give my hubby heart failure :-)

AND FOR MY NEXT TRICK .................

The first blog

I love to look at websites and blogs about organising your house, especially on a budget. I get a huge amount of ideas from these sites but they are not specific to NZ so I thought that I would use the ideas from these sites and put an NZ twist on them. I also aim to find good deals for the resources that I use to help us NZ'ers.

I have 3 children, 1 husband and for 42 weeks of the year we have an international college student as part of our family too. My husband does a lot of soccer refereeing and training and during soccer season I become a soccer widow. We both work full time so I believe we need to get more organized so that we don't get completely overwhelmed this year.

I started writing this blog and then got horribly ill so I have not written again for a week but I will start showing you some of my projects shortly.