Thursday’s Tip

I’m going to start giving tips on Thursday’s (hence the name). So, here I go…

Magazines. I get a few parent magazines. They have great articles and ideas that I want to keep for future reference, but I don’t want to keep stacks of magazines in my house. If your like me, you rip those pages out that you want to keep. Now what do you do with them? If you haven’t ripped any pages out yet and just have the magazine, start with maybe 5 or 10 magazines at a time and take out the pages you are interested in and put them in a pile next to you.

Once you go through that stack of 5 magazines, go to your pile of pages you took out. Then separate them into different categories. You might have an article on birthday party ideas and something on crafts or even a parenting tip you’d like to hold on to. What ever it is, put it in its own pile.

Then, get a 3-ring binder and some dividers. Label each tab one of the categories from your pile of papers.

You can either punch holes in the side of the articles and then put them in the binder or you can tape them on another piece of paper and punch holes in that paper.

If what you are interested is only a small section of the magazine paper, then feel free to cut that little article out and tape if to a piece of paper. Then you can put that in the binder and add to it with future articles you cut out.

Okay, that is step one. If that works for you, great! But, if one of your tabs takes up the entire binder, then you’ll need to get a separate binder for that tab alone. And do the exact same thing for that one tab. Divide out those pages into separate categories.

For example: One of my tabs is “fun activities”. That tab is becoming too big for my current binder. So, I’m going to separate those. I’ll have a holiday section, crafts, games, and science (to name a few). I’m sure you can get more in-depth, but this works for now. That binder will just be for activities.

If your curious, here are some tabs I have in my binder:

- Hints and Tips

- Health and Safety

- Food Tips

- Fun Activities

- Parenting/pregnancy

- Fun Facts

- Birthday

Depending on how many magazines you have, it could take a while. But don’t give up. Do a little everyday. Maybe try to do it 10 minutes a day.