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| Just one of many, many piles that went away this week. |
I am a foodie. I subscribe to a lot of food magazines and there are an awful lot I keep. Well, there were an awful lot. Last week, I sat down with a pile of magazines, a notebook, scissors and tape and prepared to go through them, cut out recipes, put them in a notebook and throw away. I've done that before. In some ways it's good, (Yay! no piles of magazines!) but it's definitely not perfect. Can you guess what happens to the notebooks? Yeah, usually they sit there, not really organized, not all that appealing, difficult to find what I'm looking for, you get the picture, it just doesn't work very well.
Suddenly, a lightbulb went on. Pinterest. Most, though not all, food magazines put their recipes online, with the pictures from the magazine (you know, what drew you to it in the first place). Last week, I spent hours going back through saved magazines, determining which recipes interest me enough to want to save, finding them on the appropriate website, and "pinning" them. Now, when I'm meal planning or looking for inspiration, I can go to my Pinterest boards and browse through them. I still get the storage I wanted, in an easy to use format, and no more piles! I have thrown away/recycled well over a 100 magazines this week. (Mark's going to love me when he takes the garbage/recycling out.) I've made room for another obsession of mine--cookbooks!
I think Pinterest is here to say. I think my beloved bookmarks are safe, if not, I really don't want to think about it, I'd probably cry, but maybe, just maybe, the loss of clutter and piles of stuff around my house, would make up for it.
I still have about 30-40 magazines to go through and then, that's it! The piles will be gone, my boards will be organized, hated clutter will be eliminated. Best of all, it's gotten me started, I feel like I'm on a roll. What can I get rid of next??
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5 comments:
I also have folders full of recipes that I'm going to organise 'one day' bu never get around to it. Pinterest is a good way to keep track of all your favourite recipes. You can keep heaps more, too, than you'd be able to store in the magazines around your house.
Great idea! I cut recipes out of magazines and put them in binders, but I never thought of using Pinterest! I may have to try that!!
Oh yay!!! I love cleansing. It feels so good afterwards to look around and be able to see clearly again. Whew! It's alot of work though.
Great job!
Yay for you! What a smart use of Pinterest!
I gasped at the thought of bye bye maggies!! well done you, but wow, I don't know how you did it! I do the same, thinking I'll cut this out or that, and then lose the clipping. I was thinking about getting a Smash folder and putting all of my favorite clippings in that, but then I come back to saving the stack of magazines for the day I own a Smash folder. Such a horrible cycle!
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