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From: MaryW
Date: 06-22-2003, 05:48 PM (1 of 5)
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I am posting this for Web2cats. Let's hear your ideas. Clutter! It use to be that my piles of clutter were at least neat and orderly, stacked just so. The cat also decided this was a secluded and comforting place to sleep. The catalogs I could easily dispense with, eventually. I have a problem with magazines purchased but not yet read. I can't seem to throw anything away unless I've read it or at least browsed quickly through, just in case something earth shattering presents itself. I'd like to paint my office and make it streamlined for production sewing. However, there is so much "stuff" everywhere that I am starting to get rattled. So, the piles get higher, wider, more intriguing, but, alas, never read. And the magazines and mail keep coming. I need help. I'm being slowly buried in possessions that might come in handy some day... MaryW
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User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542 
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From: lovemyfabric
Date: 06-22-2003, 06:04 PM (2 of 5)
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You could get some plastic totes or the cardboard boxes with lids to store your magazines. You could label the boxes with the types of magazines in each so you can find what you're looking for. These totes could then be stacked up so they would take less space and the magazines wouldn't be falling all over the place. I store fabric and patterns in totes and it helps me keep my stuff organized better. You could also give away some magazines that you might not ever look at again (easier said than done). |
User: lovemyfabric
Member since: 06-06-2003 Total posts: 126 
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From: sosewsmart
Date: 06-23-2003, 05:30 PM (3 of 5)
| I have found that the only way to keep ahead of the "mail" which includes the magazines and junk is to keep two things next to "my chair"--that being the chair I sit in in the evening when I relax and go through the mail. Those two things are a nice flat basket and a nice pretty waste basket. I look through everything the day I receive it and immediately throw away the junk and the duplicate magazines--you know, the ones that you get weekly!! Any thing else can be put in the basket until I can study it at length. However!!!---the basket gets weeded out every Sunday morning after I read the Sunday paper and it all goes into the trash along with the paper. Empty the waste basket at the same time!! Anything left in the basket after a month should either be pitched or filed for future referance (like quilting mag.s and cooking ideas). I have found that this system really works for me, and I don't have to feel guilty about keeping some things "until I can get around to looking at it"!!! |
User: sosewsmart
Member since: 06-20-2003 Total posts: 1 |
From: MaryW
Date: 06-24-2003, 12:07 PM (4 of 5)
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Mail is something I sort over the waste basket. I am a sucker for book clubs though. I belong to a few of them and they are relentless. With our household, we just have to keep track of mail very closely or chaos arrives. MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542
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From: VCMOM
Date: 06-24-2003, 06:45 PM (5 of 5)
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I used to be a magazine Junkie. I got tired of the piles too and here is how I solved my mess....Since I have very little time to read any more I took my piles of unread mags and quickly went through each one. I tear out the pages of the articles I want to read, crafts, receipies or whatever I might want to try then I staple multiple pages together and throw the rest in the recycller. I have a file for craft projects and recipes. When I want to try something new I go to my file. The articles I keep in a folder and in my car. I read while I'm waiting for the kids, sitting in traffic trying to enter the freeway to get to work etc. The only magazines I tend not to tear apart are quilting ones. I store them in my sewing room closet but I'm sure once my stash gets to massive I'll go through them in much the same way. Hope this helps! Lori |
User: VCMOM
Member since: 10-31-2002 Total posts: 74 |
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