Being the mother of 4 in grade school I get a lot of paper. You might think that these days schools have switched over to doing more electronically, but not so! I still get monthly newsletters, announcements, permission slips, flyers for events, and more. And where do I keep it all?
Until now I admit that some papers would end up MIA. I try my best to put them all in the same place in my office, but that did not work out very well. But now with the momAgenda Kitchen Folio I have somewhere to neatly keep it all. I can have a labeled section for each item. There are white tabs included that I can use to make sections for permission slips, newsletters, and other school papers and forms. I can keep only what is relevant while I need it and then throw them out as the new ones arrive.
The momAgenda Kitchen Folio includes 48 clear pages and 24 interchangeable tabs. It also comes with a few pre-made forms that you can fill in to keep useful info nearby. The forms included are:
Important Information: Here you can list your name, address, school names and phone numbers, extended family, friends, and emergency contacts.
Important Phone Numbers: This is a full sheet for phone numbers of doctors, the vet, neighbor, and more.
Home-Related Phone Numbers: Here you can store even more numbers for things like contractors, handyman, garbage pickup and more.
Family Medical Info: Here you can list insurance info, prescriptions, allergies, and other info necessary to make sure your family gets the right medical care.
Babysitter’s Info: Everything that you need to know about your babysitter.
Birthdays and Anniversaries: This page is laid out by month. You can list birthdays for everyone important to you so that you will not miss one.
I would also suggest creating a page for useful household tech info like your ISP information, router password, and family email accounts. And if your house is very techy like mine, creating another page with brief instructions on how to control your entertainment center would be good. This is handy for when the grandparents or babysitter are over. I know I have gotten many calls while at work on how to switch to a movie.
The clear plastic page protectors are also a great place to keep kid’s artwork. The boards in my office are overflowing with awesome art! Now I can use the Kitchen Folio to store some items and put my favorites on the wall.
Since the Kitchen Folio is completely customizable you are not limited in what you can do. There can be a place for everything! You can use the removable tabs to customize your folio so that it works for your life.
The Giveaway
momAgenda would like to give one of my readers their own Kitchen Folio (worth $25.99). To win simply leave a comment below telling me how you currently keep your paperwork in check.
The contest will run until Friday, May 3, 2013 at 5:00 pm.
Disclosure: This post is part of my involvement in the compensated momAgenda COMM program.
I have separate clipboards for papers from each school. Ugly, but effective.
Sad to say it's not in check. I tend to make piles on the table that get swept into a box if someone is coming over! Trying to get it under control.
My papers are just set in piles 🙁 I really need something like this so I can be more organized with them. this would help out greatly for my work papers and with the kids papers
My paperwork is put in a 31 organizer on the wall waiting to be filed.
Momagenda an a binder that I often forget about. Momma needs it all together!
I have a ThirtyOne bag I carry with me every day–it has my MomAgenda in it and a folder with mulitple pockets to carry all my stuff!
I have an accordian folder with 31 pockets labeled 1-31 for each day of the month and 12 monthly pockets labeled Jan-Dec. I put the paper for the current month in the 1-31 pockets and paper for future months in the corresponding month pocket. I have a large calendar and use it to mark activities and deadlines. I put the corresponding paper in the accordian folder. It makes it pretty easy to keep track of dates and its associated paperwork.
All the paperwork and art work from all 3 of my kids gets piled up on my desk, then once a week I have to go through it all. I am looking for a way to become more organized!
I am sadly drowning in paper. This is very sad. It drives me crazy because I am overwhelmed and it drives my husband crazy because I never seem to get around to doing anything about it because we are always running around……PLEASE HELP SAVE ME 🙂
I guess if you call a bunch of file folders a way to organize ~ that’s how we have ours. Sad, but true!
I keep paperwork in check by sticking them all on the fridge. Sometimes I can’t remember what color the fridge is!
I have piles of papers everywhere!
This is awesome! Between newsletters, trip slips and awards I am drowning in paper. Especially since everything is double. This could possibly save my life!
I love to print out and try new recipes. This would keep me from wasting paper having to reprint cause I messed up my copy!