Mail Organization - My Mail Center

I was getting tired of all the piles on our counter of miscellaneous papers and mail. Here is my solution and so far it's helped. I used a Thirty-One Fold n' File (but you could use any filing bin) and added some hanging file folders and regular file folders within (for subcategories). To help support the weight and make the folders slide around easier, I used a report cover spine on the sides where the folders hang. I also got a bin for incoming mail. Our system is to put daily mail or other miscellaneous papers into the bin, then when I have a chance I go through it and put it in the Fold n' File organizer. 

My folders include: 

* Mail

     - Bills to pay

     - Review (further reading required or call on)

     - File (stuff to keep in our actual file cabinet)

     - Shred

* Coupons & Menu's (I store take out menus and restaurant & coupons for things other than groceries)

* Kid stuff (art I want to save, classes, & medical stuff)

Notes & Menu Whiteboard

My latest Pinterest project was to create a whiteboard for our kitchen. I already have a paper calendar that I use, but my new mission was to have a place I can write reminders, and to plan out our meals for the week. I want to start planning our meals out for the week so I could get rid of my current system - frantically running through the house and scrounging through cupboards at 4pm trying to figure out what I could make for dinner! I did some searching on Pinterest and didn't find exactly what I was looking for, but but I got ideas to create my own board.

Materials: Picture frame with glass, decorative paper, letter stickers, index cards, scissors, white board marker

Level of difficulty: VERY easy

NOTES & MENU WHITEBOARD:

I like to call this my "Command Center." My husband likes to call it my "Crazy Center!"