I used to have a habit of reading through a collection of helpful tips or frugal living ideas and thinking, "I'll have to remember that". Then, that suggestion, tip, or idea would simply get lost in mental clutter. I finally decided that organizing the information in a way that made it easy to find when I needed it was the best thing to do.
I've tried all three of these methods and each has been effective.
By VeronicaHB from Asheboro, NC
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Since you are already a computer user, why not just highlight ( with your cursor) the recipe or idea you want to save, copy it, Paste it to a new document, the , under "file" on the top menu bar,hit "save as" and save to a file you have named "recipes" or "Household tips" or whatever, in your personal documents.
I have divided my recipe file into many categories (such as casseroles, sweet stuff, soups etc.). This way I have them forever and can copy them out later when I am ready to make it. If you have a laptop, you can be really green and just take your computer into the kitchen and no wasted paper. You just handle these files as you would the paper variety but they take up no space in your home and use no paper or expensive organizing equipment.
I pdf a lot of the things I find online, and end up printing a fair number of them to organise into binders-I used to live in hurricane country and a lot of the tips I've collected came in very handy as hard copy when the grid would go down due to storm damage. I've also taken my binders out camping where there is no 'Net or sufficient power to get into the laptop to retrieve info.
And lol, I also do a lot of tip-jotting into the margins of my binders:)
Good tips for organising info we all need, thank-you for posting!
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