February's Organization Round-up-Recipes

I must say, I am not a huge recipe collector or used, so this is not a huge challege for me. I know people with far larger recipe collections than mine. I just purged my cookbooks before our move so those are really down to bare bones. I do need a better system for storing the recipes I have and the ones I may want to save though. So far I just have this binder that I made when we were first married 10 years ago, it is pretty full and tattered. My plan is to clean-it up and oraganize the recipes so I can find them.

BEFORE:
 

 

AFTER:
I threw away almost half of the recipes I'd collected. I put in new dividers, they are actually binder pockets, with stick on divider tabs. This will work out so much nicer for me, since I only like to put in tried and true recipes into my binder. I can put the ones I want to try out in the pockets, until they graduate to the binder. I put all my 'tried and true' recipes into sheet protectors, this helps because I am a messy cook...lol.

 

 

January's Organization Round-up

So I am a little late posting these, but I just joined the Organization Junkie blog and I liked that she was doing file cabinets in January. My file cabinet has been very neglected, since our move I have not even filed anything.*gasp* It has all been sitting in a pile in my to-do basket. This really wasn't too dramatic of a change, since I go through my files at least once a year. I was due to get them cleaned-out and it was a good excuse to take the opportunity and make them look nicer.


Well here is my before picture:


I used this challenge as an excuse to buy a label maker, I have been wanting one for a long time. I reassessed what I wanted in our household files, and then went through each file and cleaned out old papers that I didn't need, then printed labels and used all the same color folders for a tidier look. Then I filed the pages in my to-do basket. Ta-daa!