Even in this increasingly digital age, one of the biggest clutter makers in any home is paper – especially when you have kids! From artwork, to their first spelling test, to a soccer certificate, your children’s accomplishments can quickly take over your countertop. It’s practically a full-time job trying to sort through what works of art and school achievements you should save from your little Einstein.
Luckily, there’s still an amazing product out there called the binder. We’re not talking about Trapper Keepers here, but rather durable, customizable storage systems that can save your sanity. The process for this home-organization trick is easy: take all the works in question, punch holes in them with a 3-hole punch and stick them in a binder. It’s that simple!
Later on, when you have more time, you can go through and remove those papers you don’t think make the cut. Or, if you never get around to it, your child already has basically the equivalent of a photo album full of their accomplishments that they can flip through at any time.
Bonus Tip: If you’ve got more room in your one or two-inch binder, we recommend sticking in a divider and start the next year in the same binder.
Hard-backed binders give a little more shelf-appeal and long-term durability than a vinyl one, and if you work with a custom binder company, you could even get the binder personalized with embossment to mark it as your child’s own, or you could get a clearview binder to slide in a particularly monumental memento as the cover art.
If you’re thinking of storing multiple years in the same binder, you might look at a larger binder with D-rings. D-rings allow you to add more pages in easier as the stack grows larger than the typical O-ring. If you’re going all out, you can even consider a legal-sized binder that will hold larger works of art without having to fold them.
Storing your child’s mementos in a binder is just another great way they can keep your life organized…. As best as possible! Learn more about how to choose the best binder for you.
