An organizing quickie - cord storage

THIS IS NOT AN ORGANIZING BLOG! (If I tell myself that enough, I'll stop).

I've had this idea pinned for a while - referenced in this post.

We have a side table with a nice, deep drawer that I have been storing cords and cables in.  Last year, I bundled each one in a binder clip and wrote on the clip what it was.  Thought I organized it. 

Opened the drawer to find the portable DVD cord a few months ago, and was faced with this:

SO, I found a box from my last Pampered Chef order, and loaded it with toilet paper tubes I had been saving.
 

 This box ended up being just for USB  to???? stuff.  Most of it I have no idea what it goes to.  I wrote on the ones I knew, and then just made sure on the others the non-USB side was up when I put them in so I could match to the electronic at a glance by size.  Hopefully.
 P.S. it's hard to write inside a tp tube.  FYI.

 


 In the process, I found this victim of doggie chewing.  Why did we put it in the drawer instead of the garbage when it was discovered?  The dogs didn't get in the drawer and chew it.  SOMEONE had to put it back in there. ???? 

 I still had a bunch of wall (outlet) to electronics cords that wouldn't fit in the box.  Good thing I had ordered two sets of bamboo bowls!  Pulled the other box out, left those in their binder cord bundles, and dropped them in!


Now, much, much better!

P.S.S. please forgive the photography.  Since Picnik closed last month, I haven't had a chance to look for a new free photo editing software.   There's a lot on there you didn't need to see! :)

Welcome!

Last fall, I found pinterest.  Here I am, 5790 pins later, and a better mom and teacher because of it.  But the only way to make that time spent pinning worthwhile is to actually do something I pinned.  Novel concept, huh?


Since Pinterest took over my life, I've been inspired to blog more.  I've found so many cool blogs through that site.  So, I've starting this one, changing the direction a little bit from a previous blog. The cool thing about it, totally self-serving, is that I am organizing my pins as I work on these posts.  Even with 32 boards, they still need lots of sub-categorization, because I am OCD like that.  I hope these posts will be helpful as a concise set of information within a specific idea for you!

Coming soon:

Disney family - tips and tricks for planning a WDW vacation, Disney movie night ideas, WDW favorites

Family Pin a day - Recapping the pin we did for the day, praying there aren't too many epic fails.  (Like when I tried to make string cheese fingers with pumpkin seeds in little bit's Halloween lunch.  Guess it was a little to realistic.  She vomited on the cafeteria table when she saw it.  Next time, I'll leave off the red food dye accent.) 

Kindergarten prep - as a 15 year K teacher, and little princess on her way there next year, I'll be sharing adventures in K land, activities from the classroom and at home to help her be ready
 
Tween/teen - the other end of my parenting spectrum - a 12 year old princess.  Hormones have arrived at our house.  Anyone else with an almost tween drama diva?