Monday, December 31, 2012

Organizing My Bills and Paperwork

Happy New Year!!
Are you are new year's resolution kinda person??  I say I'm not, but I do try to be more organized and more frugal each year and I'm always starting out a new year eating healthier, drinking more water, and the like.  Do you remember that I started off last year with my 12 week organizational challenge.  I got a lot accomplished but, you can never be too organized, right?
My office space is limited to a basket inside a cabinet in my kitchen.  The basket holds bills that need to be paid, coupons I'm saving, tax receipts, and basically any important papers.
Pretty pathetic way to organize such important stuff, huh?!
I do pretty well paying bills on time but this "system" is just a recipe for disaster.  So, I decided to get myself organized for this new 2013 year.
I purchased an accordion file to clear out my basket.
After throwing away all the junk and putting other papers where they belong, I was able to condense all my paperwork to this file folder.
I used my label maker to label the pockets.  
Then I bought a 12 pocket accordion file to file my bills month by month, after I get them paid.
This file was already labeled with the months of the year so I'm all ready to go.
One thing that I know has helped me in the bill paying department,  is to use online bill pay.  This is such a wonderful convenience.  On the 1st of each month, I schedule the payment of all my bills for the entire month.  That way I do it all in one swipe and don't have to worry about paying a bill later in the month. These free bill payment checklists come in handy too.

Keeping all my passwords for online resources organized is imperative.  I like to store my passwords in my yearly planner.
I rewrite them every year...getting rid of the ones we don't use anymore.

In my bill basket there was a printer cable.  I use this when I'm hooking my laptop or other device to my printer, but storing it in my bill basket was well, not neat and tidy.  So, I am now storing it and some other cables in toilet paper rolls.
I just label the rolls so I can remember what the cords and cables go to.  

So, for under $10, I have organized my little bill paying area.  Hopefully taking the time and little bit of money will save me both time and money in the long run!


Blessings,


Well, Org Junkie announced her New Year's Organizing Revolution and I didn't want to miss out on an opportunity to be more organized.


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Monday, December 24, 2012

Merry Christmas

I want to take this opportunity to wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas.
I will be taking all of Christmas week off from blogging.
There will be no Think Tank Thursday either.  
So, I hope you all have a wonderful week and I'll see you in the New Year!


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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Easy Glue Snowman Craft for the Kids

I love Christmas break for many reasons and keeping the kids doing fun, festive activities is one of my favorite parts.  Back in October I showed these simple glue ghosts.  My Princess enjoyed this easy project so I decided to add a winter spin to it and make some glue snowmen.
All you need is some glue, a foam plate or wax paper, and paper cut into the shapes you want to use to decorate your snowman.
Just squeeze the glue out into the shape of your snowman...short and fat, tall and skinny, tall and fat...whatever you like.
Then add your paper shapes to make eyes, nose, mouth, and clothes...if you like.

Now, the hard part...wait.  My snowman was thick so he took a full 24 hours to dry.  My snowwoman only took about 12.  After they dry, remove them from the foam plate.

Cute and Easy!!


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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Welcome To Think Tank Thursday #10

It's great to have you here this week!  Isn't it hard to believe that next week at this time Christmas will all be OVER!!!  That makes me so sad!  So, I'm just going to enjoy all your awesome posts this week and we'll deal with next week when we get there! 

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Rustic Christmas Sign

Well, I finished my Christmas decorating last week with this sign and it adds the perfect look to my rustic burlap Christmas decor.

I will preface this by saying that this is not the easiest way to make a "hand-painted" sign but, I learned my lesson and I'll tell you how I did and how I think you should do it if you decide to make one :).
I started with an old piece of recycled cedar siding.  I dry brushed it white to give it a worn white-washed look.

This is where things got difficult.  I printed out the words on my printer and had all intentions of using a pencil and tracing the letters...hard-like so it would leave marks so I could paint inside the lines.

Well, it didn't work so I had to use a harder, pokier tool.


That worked, but it was hard on my hands...pushing down so it would leave marks.  When I got that done, instead of painting, I decided to just use permanent markers to "paint the sign".



It was well worth every hand pain!!  Next time I will get some carbon or transfer paper and use the same method without having to push down so hard!!



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