Much Organized Mail

Our clever wicker baskets were a little messy and a little falling off the wall from the heaps of mail we threw in them, so I was waiting for another solution to make itself apparent before I hung them up again on my newly painted kitchen walls. I also didn't like the idea of hanging brown wicker in my cool modern kitchen -so the mail has just sat on our dining room hutch for the past few weeks.

When the pile got too large for me the other day, I realized two things: 1) I could use the scanners at work for free (yes I checked) to mass-scan my paperwork and thereby reduce what we needed to keep in hard copy. 2) I had purchased two black metal office folder hangers (each with three tiers) at our furniture sales when the company moved last October. They cost me $1 each- and even though they'd been sitting in our storage room since then, I knew I'd use them sometime! And I just looked these up: originally they had been $50 each at Officemax - yeah, you can do the dance with me - that's a $98 savings!



I had been looking into cool vintage steel bike baskets, and while they'd be more creative, they were mad expensive. One of the metal wall folder pockets made for a perfect replacement; nothing like a hundred-cent solution! And I even hung it on my own. Yes, I'm proud of myself, so what?

I have plans to use the other to corral the husband's enormous magazine collection in the bathroom as soon as we do a little touch up on the paint.