Solution for scraps

[123SA]

I finally found a solution that works for me. I have 2 rows of magazine files, sorted by color. If it is too big, I either cut it down or I put it in with my full sheets of paper, but in the front, so I can find it easily. I used an accordion file folder before. It was too full and I usually just added paper to it since getting it out was too hard. All of this paper camer from the folder -- clearly it was bursting! I now go to my scraps first. I have used quite a lot of it since I made the change. I also no longer accumlate piles of scraps that need to be put away since it is so much easier to put it away.

I don't really have much a system for patterned papers -- they all go in an accordion file folder, just jumbled up, not sorted at all.

That annoying piece of green in the yellow box is a piece of double sided paper - -yellow on the other side.

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

Well at least green is playing nicely with yellow.


That is a good idea. I wish I had room to put something like that. Right now they are all shoved in a huge clear plastic Archiver's bag.

 

[jacksmomma]

Don't you feel such a sense of accomplishment when the scraps are organized?! I use the ziplock bag system and I find myself using my scraps a whole lot more now that I do not have to dig!

 

[123SA]

Don't you feel such a sense of accomplishment when the scraps are organized?! I use the ziplock bag system and I find myself using my scraps a whole lot more now that I do not have to dig!

Very nicely put. This is exactly how I feel. Now if I could just feel this way about the rest of my house....

 

[morgansmom2000]

Great idea! I need to make room for this kind of system. I HATE how I have my scraps now (just tossed into a Iris box that's way too full). I have been trying to use scraps lately though.