I HATE cleaning. I'd rather be doing just about anything else.
But, I love a clean house and I love organizing things.
I feel scatter-brained in messy rooms. (This happens EVERY DAY.) My eyes dart from one thing to the other, taking my thoughts in a hundred different directions. I live in a messy, cluttered house.
It is funny, to me, that I have little pockets of organization that I insist upon. My side of the closet is organized. I have my shirts organized from no sleeves to long sleeves. Pants go from short to long. All my suits or multi-piece outfits are together, skirts and dresses are grouped as well. I can't pick out clothes to wear if I don't keep my closet like this. But in my bedroom there are piles of clothes waiting to be put away, books and unfinished projects littering the floor and the headboard.
Oh, for consistency...
ANYWAY...
Today I'm going to share an organization trick for your purse. It is awesome. I don't know where I got the idea. I remember being desperate to organize my insurance cards. I don't have any Pinterest pins on this, but in a search, I do see that someone else has had this great idea, too. (Here is the original source for the Pin I saw tonight.) I may have seen it and used it way back when, without pinning it. I just don't remember.
It is very simple organizing technique that will save you time when you are out and about.
You will need a hole punch and a key chain ring or binder ring.1. First find all those grocery store and restaurant loyalty cards. Your craft store cards, gift cards and whatever else business-card-size cards you have out of your purse.
2. Go through them and throw away any you don't use, expired, etc. (I threw away several tonight -- taking my own advice!)
3. Take a hole punch -- just your normal, everyday single hole, hole punch, and punch a hole in the corner of each card you have. Just be sure you don't punch a hole in the magnetic strip or barcode, or in a spot for one of your 'punches' if it is a loyalty punch card. And, make sure it isn't too close to the edge.
You may notice that it may not be in the same place for all the cards. That is OK.
4. Put them in alphabetical order so finding the one you need is easy, or just put them in any ol' random order. After they are in the correct order, you can turn them or flip them so they all line up before putting them on the ring.
5. You can put them on a key chain, but the thought of threading them on a double ring like that was a big deterrent for me. I pictured broken nails, bent card corners and frustration levels high enough to drive me to pitch the whole thing in the trash...
So I used a binder ring. (Also called a looseleaf binder ring.) You can get them at office supply stores. I had some at home. (Which is why the larger one is SO big.)
Done!
The next time you go to Game Stop the young boy's eyes will widen as he admires your organization skills when you pull that ring from your purse for him to look up your account.
[That really happened last Christmas. He even said "wow, that's cool" as I flipped through them. It happens all the time. People love this idea!]
As you can see in the picture, I have a separate ring for insurance cards. We used to have one for each of us for health and a different one for the whole family for prescriptions and one for each of us for dental. With 8 in our family, that was 17 cards in my purse. It was a NIGHTMARE! That is actually what prompted me to find a solution for the card mess in my purse. This last time they sent cards there were 4 persons on each and we use those two for everything, so I COULD put them on my general card ring, but I won't. I'm too "into" my system of having them on their own rings.
I use a safety pin to pin the ring in my purse. It just makes it easy to find since I kind of have a big purse. If you have a pocket you can put it in, you can do that. But safety pins are awesome at keeping things in place if pocket space is unavailable.
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