Right after the holidays, I also read about a great idea on how to store holiday cards each year, which is perfect for a packrat like me.  Every year I can’t bring myself to throw away the photos and messages sent to us by our friends, especially because we’ve moved around so much the last few years that it’s one of the main ways we keep up with what’s going on with everyone.  With a simple hole punch and a book ring, I threw all of our cards together and stored them in a box with our other holiday decorations.  By the time the holiday season rolls around this year, this booklet of cards will be a great way to review where everyone was a year ago.

Lastly, and believe me, I know that this is hands-down the most Type-A, Martha Stewart-with-crazy-eyes that I can get, but the labels I usually make using my handy Brother P-Touch (I prefer that we all use proper names only when referring to my sacred label maker, please) to keep the bins in our laundry room organized were driving me crazy.  Because these bins are made of fabric that is similar to recycled grocery bags (not the kitschy, adorable Whole Foods type, but more like the scratchy, extremely flammable-feeling kind), the labels kept peeling off every few weeks, and I’d have to replace them all the time.

Enter my laminator, which you may remember from such winning DIY projects such as this one.  I adapted my experience from laminating luggage tags to create these:

Which, when affixed to my laundry room bins with oh-so-chic satin ribbon, became this:

I know, right?  Crazy town.  And I would be lying if I said that this little 30-minute project didn’t create an immensely satisfying euphoria quite akin to eating a delicious piece of pork belly.  Because it did, totally and completely.

And you know what?  I’m okay with that.