the great organization

*organizing projects of my own*
-file drawer: inspired by jean chatzky's list in make money, not excuses, i organized my important documents. i have since added folders for job searching and apartment hunting. the files are rotated out at the end of tax time each year. the old files are put in a plastic file box.
-desk drawer: annoyed by the clutter contain in this drawer i bought two desk drawer organizers and laid them side by side, giving me plenty of compartments for all those little things.
-bedroom shelving: lacking enough storage space for odds and ends and having plenty of shelving but few drawers, i purchased three storage cubes in varying colors. each contains different things. one contains bathroom and personal supplies (band-aids and such). another contains a sewing kit, some of my jewelry boxes, and several nail polish bottles. the last one contains stationary and printer supplies.
-class binder: for my classes this semester, i knew that there would be a lot of printouts and i thought it would be too costly to buy tabs to separate them. i bought post-it arrows and use those with the handout number written with sharpie to separate them.
-moving: when i moved into my current apartment i was also planning a trip to ireland. i was to move out of my apartment on saturday and leave for my trip on monday. i needed to be highly organized. i made a list of what to pack for ireland and made sure to not pack those things in my moving boxes. then i tallied everything i was going to move. and estimated how much stuff would go into how many boxes. i was actually dead-on. and i wasn't missing a thing when i was abroad.
-boyfriend: i am so into organizing that i have also convinced my boyfriend to take it on. his bedroom is still a work in progress, but i have contained a lot of the miscellaneous things into the same boxes i mentioned above. his music collection has also been reorganized.
-menu: i have a system set up where i plan my meals for the week and make a grocery list for all the things i'll need that i'm missing. also i organize my shopping list by the order they appear in the store.
-kitchen: when i was unpacking my boxes, i rearranged much of the kitchen stuffs so as to fit in my additions. also i've taken the opportunity to do a larger reorganization while my roommate is out of town.or