I wrote last week about taking baby steps in organizing so that tasks don't seem so overwhelming. I think it's time for me to take baby steps toward my pile of recipes waiting to be dealt with. I am a chronic recipe clipper, printer, saver...I always see recipes that look delicious, sound delicious, and that I have every intention of trying. Then they get put into a pile somewhere and forgotten about. This problem was made worse by our move(s) this year. Recipes were packed away, some were not, new ones were collected during the months we were in temporary housing. It just became quite a confusing mass of recipes.
People have given me a level of sympathy and have excused my lack of of organization during the past few months since I "just moved". But today I started wondering, "Just how long can I keep using the 'I just moved' excuse?" There really is no longer a legitimate excuse for my accumulated recipes to look like this:
So, today I took a baby step in organizing my recipes. My baby step was to identify what baby steps I need to take! And here they are:
1) Separate the recipes by size--those on cards needing to be filed; those on magazine pages or computer print-out pages needing to be put in binders; and magazines with pages folded down that need to have the pages with recipes torn out to be filed.
2) Go through the different categorized piles I make and get things in order. To do this all I will need is my 3 ring binders with clear page protector-type pages in them, scissors, my recipe box and a TRASH CAN/ recycling can-- I inevitably come across a recipe that I clipped months earlier and don't know why I saved it!
3) Find a spot to store the recipes.
The kids are hoping to be snowed in tomorrow. Then I would be snowed in with my kids and my recipe mess. Maybe I will take SEVERAL baby steps to alleviate the mess tomorrow. Maybe I'll even come across a new recipe to try on a snowy day!
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