Do you get giddy when you label things? I can relate! I love labels because I see them not as organization gone too far, but as a critical component in the organizational equation. If you subscribed to my newsletter (thanks by the way!) you know I’ve even gone as far as labeling my refrigerator! Why you ask? Well … the thing about labels is this. They remind you about the organizational structure even when the stuff being organized is no longer around. Refrigerators are a great example. When you take things out of the refrigerator because you (or your really hungry kids) ate it all up … the organizational structure is gone. Labels keep the structure in place even when your refrigerator is empty and you need to make a trip to the store. What’s more … when you get back from the grocery store (and are tired like I always am after that lovely chore!) the labels take the thinking out of putting the groceries away. You know exactly where things go because the labels are there to tell you. OK … so now you’re convinced labeling is a necessity … right?
Alright … now let’s make labeling FUN! Maybe not in the refrigerator but just about everywhere else, OK? Here’s an idea to spark your creative juices …
Let me know if you take the challenge and create some creative labels of your own. Send me an email of your fun and creative labels and I’ll post them in the photo album. Can’t wait to hear from you and SEE your creative labels!
Okay, so I’ve GOT to see photos of your organized fridge. I so need to do this, too. Please share! 😀
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I would love to see pictures too Aby!! I never thought to label the fridge. My cabinets are labeled, but not the fridge. Great idea!!
I am up for the challenge, Aby. I have a label maker and love to label things. One area that I have not labeled yet is our kitchen cupboards. I’m still not sure how I like how things are stored. Still working on that. I think I need to consult your website for guidance!
I would really like to see your fridge as well. Ours always looks like a bomb went off in it! We are doing a kitchen remodel so I need all the help I can get with organization. I’m also interested in the best way to organize a kitchen pantry. Love your blog!
Perhaps not so creative but I made tags for my Fira drawers from IKEA.
http://blog.scrappa.nu/archives/2006/05/07/699/
The baby is FINALLY going to bed at a decent hour, so I stayed up and read back in a few archives. Not only do I label my fridge (we had this discussion, I know), but labeling saved my from intense MIL manipulation. Every time she visited, she would rearrange my newborn’s dresser drawers the way SHE thought they should be (Weird? Yes. Annoying? Yes. Manipulative? Possibly!). As if, at age 38, I have no idea of how I wish to arrange things in my own home. Enter the labelmaker —
Just a few labels on the tops of the dresser drawers (onesies, booties, hats, gowns, pants, shirts) and the attack of the annoying rearranger was over! Love labels! (My husband does not even LOOK at labels, alas!).