Oct. 4, 2007 - The Best Homeschool Organizing Tool I Have Found Yet
I have recently decided to take the Purge Challenge. I am happy to report that I have made headway. I have cleared out two separate, albeit small areas in the kitchen that were magnets for papers, junk mail, and other little items. So there is progress!
Today I purchased this. (I had planned to purchase this before I started the challenge, so it doesn't count as an impulse purchase!) I got it to keep all of my son's schoolwork, workbooks, folders, and supplies in, and to encourage neatness. If you are anything like us, our kitchen table looks like a wreck at the end of each school day. We do not have an extra room to devote to school stuff. So most of our paper, books, markers, etc, end up on the kitchen table. And since there really is no "holding place" or proper place to put it all, we leave it there until the next morning. In neat little stacks, mind you. :)
And an aerial view:
There are places for staplers, pencils, pens, erasers, sticky notes, markers, notebooks, workbooks, some textbooks, small books, hanging file folders, and the list goes on and on. You can put your child's daily work inside of a file folder and keep it in there, or in a pocketed folder. Plus, it rotates! And there are little open slots on the sides that function as handles, if you need to pick it up and move it. (Which is just what I will do on the weekends or when company comes, to get it out of sight.)
If you want one, you can order it online here. Or you can drive to your local Staples. Although the cost is cheaper online, when you add the shipping of around $8, it works out to about the same price it would be to pick it up at the store yourself. They are a little high, higher than I normally pay for anything at Staples, but the peace of mind I got when I got rid of the everyday kitchen table clutter was worth it.
Now, onto purge zone number 3....
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