Let's talk organization

tshott

Our office is becoming the nursery, so I've begun the process of cleaning everything out. 

First, what do you do with cards that you receive - birthday, Christmas, thank yous, whatever?

How about magazines?  I have about a gabillion Better Homes and Gardens and Food Network (which I have no interest in) and I have no idea what to do with them.  Just throw them away after I'm doing looking at them?

I feel like I have a very good organization system for everything else; I just don't know what to do with these things.  I feel bad throwing them away.

Oct08b2bee

I throw away thank you cards as soon as I receive them. I keep birthday cards around for a little while and then end up throwing them away eventually. I save Christmas cards for a year so I know who to send them to the following year and then I throw them away. I also throw magazines away when I'm done with them unless I know someone who wants them.

crows1920

i save cards that are special to me, others i recycle.  same for christmas cards. i already have pre-printed labels for those so i usually just make sure it's updated if someone new sends me a card.

as for magazines, we usually have a circle of people that we share with. my mom gets the us weekly and parents, my friend gets the glamours, etc... if there is an article or something i like in it, i rip it out and put it in one of those photo boxes for organization. sometimes i bring them to my office (which a lot of our pt's do as well. they rip their address label off and leave them in the waiting room). otherwise, i recycle them as well. 

FutureMrsNAH

I used to keep every single card. Now I've started throwing them all out. I don't have room to be keeping stuff anymore. Unless it's super special then I would.

For magazines I've started pulling out articles I think I'll want to reference later (parenting magazines) and keeping them in a 3 ring binder. And I'll pull out recipes and stick them in a folder I keep with my cookbooks.

mrsbaecker101108

I'm horrible with not getting rid of anything either.  For cards I do save a lot of them.  If you are really wanting to purge, save ones that have special meaning or some really fun/interesting print.  With Christmas cards, I often use them to make gift tags You could really do that with any of them.

Magazines I would rip out any articles that you might want to read again later.  Then recycle them.   

moviesprincess

I keep all my cards in a box. I am sentimental like that and as long as it is contained to one box I think I am okay.

I had about 100 magazines saved up, it took me a few months but I started going through and saving articles, then I organized them in categories in a binder. It was quite an undertaking but now that that is done, I just have to rip out articles when I find them now. 

shelley1002

I throw away cards a couple days after getting them. Christmas cards I hang up in the kitchen for the season then throw them away when we take down the decorations.  As for magazines, I had about 7 years of issues of the only one I had a subscription to  I asked a couple people if they wanted them.  They didn't so I put them in the recycling bin. I also am letting the subscription run out and not renewing because I stopped reading it a few months ago.

SSM&JLM

Recycle it all.  I don't hold onto much b/c we don't have the room for it.

If there is something in a magazine I want to save, I'll rip it out for saving.  Recipes go in a folder I have in the kitchen and house ideas I'm finding I can google and just pin to pinterest and then recycle the page.