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September / October 2011 
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Rein-in the Recipes
October Organizing Classes
Kitchen Organizing Tips
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Greetings!      

Happy Fall! 
  
This edition of The Neat Sheet is all about home renovation projects and kitchen organization. Why? My kitchen is (finally) getting updated for modern living. I can't wait until the project is done and I can organize the new space. Stay tuned!

And please check out my October organizing classes in Lexington.  
 
Best,
Elizabeth
Rein-in Your Recipes  

While my kitchen renovation is happening and my house is in a state of chaos, I decided to gain some control over one small area that had been bothering me: my recipes. Recipes after

 

Favorite recipes used to be easily contained in the small accordion file my mom gave me for my wedding engagement, but now the file was bursting at the seams. I also started to wedge recipes I had printed or pulled from magazines between the cookbooks on my shelf. It was turning into a jumble of papers. And then I had the small index file with recipes written on old-fashioned recipe cards that was stuffed too.

 

I emptied the accordion file and the recipe card box, and pulled out all the loose recipes. Now what to do? Sort! I spread them all over the floor and started to group them into categories.

 

Next, I purged recipes that I had in duplicate or that I knew I'd never make. I also found a ton of recipes I had forgotten about.

 

Now for the fun part: I put all the recipes to keep in a binder! Actually, two binders. I had this solution in mind and was ready with tabs and hundreds of plastic sleeves.

 

The result? Recipes are sorted by categories, and all easily visible in the sleeves. I can also pull out the sleeves for cooking and the recipes won't get dirty or damp.

 

Can't wait to cook again!

ClassesGo Back to School and Get Your Organizing Questions Answered

Stumped by the endless paper pile on your dining room table? Can't keep up with kids toys?  Tired of shoving papers into the black hole of your file cabinet?  Register for one of my classes next month through Minuteman Community Education in Lexington:

 

Where Do I Put This? Simple Organizing Strategies for Busy Parents - October 20th  

 

Papers, Piles & Projects: Strategies to Clear the Paper Clutter  - October 27th  

 

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Home renovation projects and organization (or dis-organization)

Kitchen organizing tips