Resources & Ideas
At Peapod, we like to play around with the newest organizing equipment and ideas. Below are some of our favorite websites!
Just click on the company name and you will be taken to their site. A new window will open up so you don't have to worry about losing your spot here at Peapod!
NEWLY ADDED: IDEAS & TIPS!
Home & General Organization Websites
This site is by far the MOST comprehensive online resource for products! You MUST check it out! You can find anything you could possibly need to get organized. There are even manuals and tools for beginning organizers! Click on the link above to browse and shop!
The Container Store is one of our favorite sites!
Stacks and Stacks is another favorite. Offers over 16,000 products!
Solutions has wonderful products for the home and home office at reasonable prices
Get Organized! has dozens of helpful items at amazing prices
Love It or Lose It provides a variety of clutter-free living information
Organizing Network explains 5 core life zone organization
Blockware provides home storage solutions
Label It Now carries storage bin solutions
Neatnix has home storage solutions
OBH Enterprises sells storage for boardgames with lots of little pieces
Organized A to Z carries organizing products for home and work
Family Facts is a company that has an amazing organizer/notebook to keep a busy family on track
JOYS: Just Organize Your Stuff has a wonderful filing notebook for the busy family
Easy Track has design-it-yourself closets & storage
Rev-A-Shelf has beautiful custom storage & organizing products
Rubbermaid has some great solutions for organizing in the home
Gladiator GarageWorks has amazing garage solutions from Whirlpool
Organized From The Start has the lifesaving BabyBriefcase for new moms
Bed Bath & Beyond has everything you need for different areas of your home
Improvements has quick and clever problem solvers
Exposures has great ways to preserve your family's memories
Tomboy Tools is a neat site that has tools and home improvements geared toward women
Lillian Vernon carries practical and affordable storage solutions
And our two classic home improvement stores:
Office Organization
Shoeboxed is the best online platform for organizing receipts and business cards. You mail them your receipts and business cards and they scan them and upload them to your own personal account on their website. They place your receipts into 15 common tax categories and are sortable by store, date, and total. You can also download receipts to Microsoft Excel, Quicken, CSV and PDF formats. You can import business cards to Outlook, Address Book, Plaxo, Salesforce, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, LindedIn, and other sites and applications. Not every option costs money- try the free account to see how much you use it and like it! Click the link here to check it out and create your own account!
Levenger has office and reading products
Pendaflex has a range of office supplies
The Paper Tiger is a filing software product
Smead carries filing and organizational products
M.O. is a really neat company that has partnered with Smead and sells customized and stylish office products
Online Labels has some of the best prices around on dozen of labels
Freedom Filer is a self-purging filing system
Organized A to Z carries organizing products for home and work
Kangaroomstorage.com has a Home Office Collection of organizing essentials (magazine butler, in & out box, hanging file box) in faux leather (black or brown) that are gorgeous.
And the three classic office supply stores:
Home Decorating & Furniture
FAVORITE PRODUCTS
Mail Sorter A desktop filing system controls the pileup of mail. From one of my favorite sites, SeeJaneWork.com
Magazine Boxes & Files Sturdy classic or modern cardboard files for subscriptions to paperwork to menus. Another favorite from See Jane Work!
Erasable Food Storage Labels from The Container Store allow you to keep track of when you made the meal. They are super-durable and can go from the refrigerator to the microwave to the dishwasher.
As a matter of fact, The Container Store has all kinds of fabulous labels! Erasable, magnetic...they're amazing!
LIST-MAKING PAPER PRODUCTS (PEAPOD LOVES LISTS!)
To Do List Notepad from Mateo Ilasco lets you write your to-dos on the left side of the pad and use the perforated right side for a shopping list.
If an entire to-do list seems daunting, keep it simple with the "I will do one thing today" stickies from Pretty Bitter. There's only one spot for one task and you'll feel super productive once you have accomplished it!
Handy Handle Pad from Bob's Your Uncle has 50 tear off sheets with a hole to hang over the door handle so you'll never walk out the door without your grocery list again.
Information Central Mouse Pad from Broadway Paper has tear-off sheets with columns for To-Dos, To-Calls, To-Emails, and a Notes section.
Check Me List Pad from Broadway Paper is a pre-written list of grocery items that you can just quickly check off and take with you to the grocery store! How simple.
I love all the checklists that Real Simple has already created for us! There are checklists for gift-giving, babysitter-information, steps for holiday meal prep, fill-in-the-blank family rules, recipe-specific grocery lists, and dozens more!
FAVORITE TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATION
I still like to tear out recipes and file them myself, but I do like to search for recipes online. With FamilyCircle.com (free), AllRecipes.com (free), and Epicurious.com (free) I can create collections of the ones I like, add comments, and print shopping lists!
I don't personally use it but it looks amazing! The Google Calendar (free) lets you do so many things at once! Check out with a free online tour of it's features.
A popular tool is ListPro list-keeping software for computer & PDA that lets you create, archive & sort lists.
I have a Palm Z22 that I use on a daily basis that also has a list management tool that works well. It's cost effective and has everything I need in one place: calendar, contacts, reminders, memos, notes, etc.
You can ship off old photos & negatives to ScanDigital.com to have them put on CD/DVD to keep forever. You just sort your photos, ship them to the company and you'll get them online to share & print extras. The company will ship back your photographs (to store away) and a CD/DVD of all your photographs so they're preserved forever! They can also put all of your photos in a digital photo frame so you can enjoy them, free yourself of clutter, and save space!
Going paperless has never been so easy. Pixily.com will scan all your paid bills, receipts, magazine clippings, flyers, and kids' artwork onto your own Web page where you can easily access, organize, email, and print them.
Quicken Personal Finance Software (free) lets you see your bank accounts and credit cards to track spending and create a budget that works for you and your family.
When you come across all your books during spring cleaning why not make some extra cash? You can sell them on Amazon.com very easily. Just click on "Sell Your Stuff", type in the ISBN number on the book (on the back cover), determine how much you want to sell it for, then mail them off! There is a small fee at the time of sale and you are paid electronically.
When you come across extra shoes that are new or have been lightly worn, why not donate them? You could drop them off at your local Goodwill or donate them to Soles4Souls, a charity that gives shoes to the needy.
Jott.com lets you create a to-do list in an online account and allows you to phone in messages and reminders with a toll-free number. It converts your voice to text and shows up on your online to-do list. It will even email and send you texts of your listed items. There are several plans that range from free to a small monthly fee.
Evernote.com stores clips and lists in a virtual scrapbook that allows you to sort, view, and create checklists. If you want to save an article or recipe from a Website, just drag the item to your online notebook. If you have notes, recipes, torn out magazine articles that you can't part with, just scan them to your account and view them online! You can easily eliminate your paper clutter and search through everything saved in your online notebook!
Cardtrak.com and Dinkytown.net have great financial calculators that let you plug in your credit card balance, APR, fees, etc. and find out exactly how long it will take you to pay off your balance. Dinkytown.net has been a wonderful tool for me. It helped me pay off my balance and keeps me from holding a balance!
Bankrate.com has a mortgage-payment calculator that computes your monthly payments and the exact day when you'll be debt-free. It also lets you calculate how much you'll save by making an extra payment or two each year.
SavingforCollege.com lets you plug in your child's age to see how much college will cost when he/she finally gets there (almost 18 years for our new baby! Hint: they quoted us $303,202!). It also lets you play with the entries such as how much of the cost you plan to cover.
Meritaid.com lets you access information on the billions of dollars in merit scholarships that are available from more than 1,800 colleges nationwide.
Copyright 2007 | Peapod
Organizing