Filofax Containment

Hi everyone!

Anyone who knows me well enough knows that I am obsessed with organizing.  Many people have watched me clean out a closet in amazement at the enjoyment I get out of it.  I volunteer to help other people clean out their stuff.  I walk around for days dreaming up ways to organize things around the house, and I won't stop until it's done.  I NEED things to be in order.

Today I will show you how I contained the chaos that is my Filofax obsession collection.

I lived with my storage 'solution' as long as I could.  I used binders for inserts storage, separating them with tabs, thinking it was enough.  I had binders that stored extra diary inserts, binders that stored notepaper, binders that stored tabs.  I thought it was an excuse for me to handle my binders on a daily basis.  I was wrong.

I didn't like it.  I didn't having to open and close the rings every time I needed to pull something out.  For me, storage has to be for a specific purpose (does that make sense?).  And I had an epiphany -- accordion/expandable files!  Like this.  I see them everywhere.  I've even had a big, black one that I never really got around to using.  They would be perfect to (1) contain all my inserts, and (2) still categorize them for easy access.  I looked at specialty stores, thinking they would have more variety, but they were all too big (I needed Personal- and Pocket-sized storage, and I wasn't going to settle for the wrong size).  They were also expensive, the equivalent of about $12 each.  I continued looking.

And voila, on a trip to a local bookstore, I found the perfect-sized ones!  They ticked all the boxes:  right size, cheap, choice of colors, sturdy, blank labels included.  Did I mention CHEAP! (: They're the equivalent of $2.50 and $1.25 for the personal- and pocked-sized, respectively.  Score!

Perfect size

Pocket size also contains mini inserts

Labeled

It takes very little to make me happy!

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