I am a gigantic packrat. Gigantic. If they had a meeting for packrats anonymous I would be the first one there - Hello, my name is Jennifer and I am a packrat. I just really like stuff. And I think it also comes from being a history major and wanting to leave something that one day that will offer insight into my life for my children - but really...what exactly are they going to glean from old Capital One bills? That eventually I signed up for paperless statements and that I pay my balance on time? Thrilling.
Much of my packrattedness manifests itself in one of two ways - books or magazines. Books I'm ok with since at one time or another, in the future, I will reread just about everything I have read at least once...sometimes twice or ten times. It's the magazines that are out of control. I keep them either because I honestly haven't had time to read them - for example I finally got around to reading Shape Magazine from April today, or because there is something in the pages that I want to keep and refer back to. Often it's literally a little box with a quote or a green product or whatever. Rarely do I keep them for full articles - so essentially I'm keeping a 50 page magazine for a 2 x 2 square of it. Brilliant.
So today I decided, after looking at the 10 plus magazines piled on my coffee table, counter, and under my checkout counter at the shop that something had to be done. I'd been tossing around the idea of a digital "Inspiration Board" for awhile now as almost like a catch-all for things I find online that I want to keep to read, write, tweet, whatever, about later, but I really hadn't come up with a good way to just keep the items from all these magazines that I wanted and recycle the rest. Today I did...Ta Daaaaaaah:
My inspiration notebook. Makes me happy on so many different levels - less clutter, everything together in one place, plus I get to play with a glue stick which I haven't done since like the 5th grade. What could be better than that!?
Love it!! I did my inspiration "board" on Paint. Then, I put it as my laptop wallpaper. So, I see it and ponder on it all the time. : ) But, I love the notebook idea cause it's portable too. Not, like a big board that you would look weird with carrying it around everywhere you go.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I have one here at home that I used to use to collect recipes, so I figured it could totally work for everything else all together. We'll see how it works. And yes, it probably would have looked pretty darn funny carrying around a poster board everywhere I went! =)
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