Pinterest is a super-fun site that can result in a feeling of crafty/organizational/cooking/fashion inadequacy like no other site. Just a few months ago, our only option for true cyberspace procrastination was to thumb through other people's pictures on Facebook, and now look at us!
Well, sucked in I am. Pinterest is as much an amazing resource for inspiration, as much as it is also a place to to get new ideas I never even knew I needed. However, I frequently see things now and am so skeptical of whether it will actually work and wonder if there are actually moms out there who really come up with and do thousands of crafts with their kids.
After sitting on my bum and collecting ideas of things I want to do on Pinterest, I started actually doing some of them. Some have worked as planned, others not so much. When I can, I'll share my repinning adventures.
My first one is an idea that I saw, "Repin"-ed, and did! I just grabbed the bull by the horns and started doing it at my house! That's right. No procrastination on this idea. I put the keyboard down and got back to putting away the laundry I had been procrastinating. It's called "Vertical Folding:"
It has been a couple of months since I first tried this, and I am happy to say, it has WORKED! The kids no longer dig through their drawer for their favorite shirt and putting their clothes away has been just as easy as it was before.
Here is what their shirt drawers look like right now, and I didn't even have to do any extra straightening to take the pictures! (This was seriously unheard of before at my house, especially since I let them pick out their own clothes and put them away before.)
I have even done this with my daughter's leggings and my shirt drawers. I modified this slightly for the kids jammie drawers and while I still stack their jams, I fold them with both pieces together to minimize the need for digging.
I'm a sucker for organizational tricks that keep me looking organized, 'cause organized, I'm really not. My world has to organize me, I don't organize it.
Next time I will address the Pin that has circled the feed a couple of times, Painting with Colored Shaving Cream. It really seemed like a good idea at first.
If you aren't on Pinterest, you have to be invited. Sounds exclusive, right? Just find a friend who is and ask for an invite or
send me an email and I will do it!
