I like having an area in my kitchen where I can keep all of my essential, 'go-to' items such as
my diary; weekly planner/calendar; phone
as well as keeping school correspondence; new recipes to try; to do lists etc.....
Enter Jade the 'Super Organiser Mum' inspired Errands Station which I've been using for nearly 12 months now, all housed in a white tin tub, using file folders.
Errands Station
(I found this tub last year at Spotlight for $29.95)
I ordered the recharge station from
Pottery Barn, to house all the mobile phone cords and our docking station.
This has been a fabulous addition to our kitchen and makes it so neat and simple.
Bedford recharge station from Pottery Barn
I was so happy when the lovely Kirsten from K&Co informed us that there was 50% off shipping for Pottery Barn, as it is pretty expensive to ship items as they come all the way from the US.
I'd been 'eyeing' off one of these Office organizers for a while now, and finally gave in to the urge, given the reduced price in the shipping.
I figured the installation of the organizer was as good chance as any to have a sort and tidy of the errands station, as even though it is sorted into labelled file folders,
it does tend to get loaded up and many papers were needing to be discarded! I have found over the 12 months that folders for the following sections, work for our household:
School correspondence (newsletter; notes from school etc)
Stationery (name labels; stickers; writing pad)
Recipes (recipes yet to make the grade of being glued into my recipe books)
To do (long term lists; ideas for DIY projects etc)
Printables (weekly calendar; medical checklist; shopping lists; babysitter notepad)
Misc
As well as these file folders, my diary; birthday planner; current shopping list; address book; the weekly calendar and month calendars (both on clip boards) live in the tub.
So happy to now have place to hang the car keys (away from little hands); find a pen and notepad; stash the sunglasses; keep the letters to be posted; dump the small change
AND it all be located close to our phones and other essential items!
xx Clare
Looks fabulous! Isn't it exciting when you get new goodies and everything is all organised!
ReplyDeleteNot sure if I should be thanking you Clare or cursing you (LOL) but I ordered this organiser and the other type with the two letter bins from PB when you put the link up on your fb page.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for them to arrive and it should be any day now!! Hope I can arrange them as well as you have with yours x
Looks great Clare. I really like the recharge station...its amazing how many cords and things need charging and then how messy it looks.
ReplyDeleteLovely!
ReplyDeleteI was at ikea on the weekend and they have a similar-ish letter sorter that's new.
It's not the same style... it's white metal and it has 4 or 5 of the slot/holders of the same shape as your Pottery barn one, but no shelf at the top.
Hi Clare, just wondering if you or anyone knows of anywhere in Aus where an item like these organisers can be found? They don't have to be exactly the same just something like it.......My hubby made me promise I would not order anything from anywhere other than Aus on the internet, I so get why he wants this by I so wish I could have one of these!! Emma
ReplyDeleteWhat a great organised area you have! Love the charging station from Pottery Barn - so good to keep all those unsightly cords hidden away.
ReplyDeleteJust stumbled across your blog and am off to have a look through your older posts...