It's been nagging at me. It's been looking at me every time I walk by, sneering. Stinkin' homeschool supplies were totally unorganized and bugging me but we don't have the money to go buy a whole bunch of storage thingys. Then it dawned on me. What about those 6 plastic shoe box storage thingys that we've kept our bills in for the last 8 years. Ya know the ones we'll never look at again, nor have we popped open a lid in at least 5 years. So, I purged them all. The bills have been
taken care of...if you know what I meant.
Now the shoe boxes actually have a functioning purpose and I don't have to be mocked any more anytime I walk into J's room. Before organizing, everything was literally stuffed into the blue thingy (last picture), except for the books. I wrote in Sharpie on top and on one side what the contents are.
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| I bought this Alphabet at the Dollar Tree |
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| Don't mind the Christmas stuff on the top left corner |
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| Crayons, craft supplies and paint/brushes |
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| Our puzzles |
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| The Kumon books, workbooks, coloring books and plain drawing paper |
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| Foam shapes, play dough toys, and lacing toys |
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| Rest of the stuff: pipe cleaners, extra paint, painting bib and 2 memory games |
If you're not familiar with
Kumon Books they are AWESOME. I also highly recommend buying your craft supplies at your local $1 store. My Dollar Tree rocks in their "school" section :)
How do you organize all of your stuff?
I used to use shoe boxes because they all have lids and stack nicely. John finally got sick of those and found the tall plastic drawer thing at a yard sale so that's where all my craft stuff is.
ReplyDeleteI've seen those before and they're cool. Too bad I don't have any floor space for one here
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