Sort it Saturday: organising paperwork

Paperwork can be a struggle - we get a steady flow of bills, letters and receipts into our homes every day! it can easily become overwhelming. I find keeping it all in one place and sorted by theme helps me to keep on top of it. I've previously written about how I store receipts, and here's how I organise the other documents that I need to keep.

You'll need:

A box file (around £5 from any stationers)

 

And some plastic zip folders:

I got these folders for £1 - I really liked how I could use them to colour code them to distinguish what was what, and that each pile of paperwork would be in its own container. I then grouped them into themes  and wrote labels that could slide into the plastic pocket at the front. My labels are bank, health, key documents (passport, birth certificate) manuals.

And that's it! Cost: around £6, you don't need to use a box file though, a cardboard box would do the trick too, and would make this really low cost.

Sort it Saturday: organising scarves

I've had a pile of scarves languishing at the back of my hall closet for ages - I'd even forgotten I'd had some of them! I recently saw an ingenious way of storing scarves so you can easily see what you have, and I'm giving it a go. I made a trip to my local 99p shop for one of the 'ingredients'.

You'll need:

A hanger:

Shower curtains with hooks:

Scarves:

Just count the scarves you have, take the same amount of shower hooks, then loop the scarves through the hooks, and attach them to the hanger. That's it!

Hanging in the closet:

I have 8 shower hooks left so can easily add more to the hanger if I need to. I also have the shower curtains left over which I plan to use as dust sheets when I paint my desk in the coming weeks.

Cost: 99p! - I already had the pink hanger, which was part of a set of 10 from Primark, and was £4.