For February my Major Challenge will be to organize two of our "collections". Our CDs and our recipies. We have about 400 CD's at last count, and a 3 binders full of recipies.
I'd like to pare down the CDs somewhat, and switch from the jewel cases to keeping them in binders. I also want to make sure they're all ripped to the computer and those files are organized sensibly.
The recipies need to be sorted (especially the ones we've just torn from magazines) and a system for marking which ones we've tried and such would be good. This part will definitely be a team project.
It's going to cost a little bit of money to accomplish this. We'll need dividers and page protectors for the recipies as well as folders for the CD's
My minor goal is to increase traffic to this site here. I'll document what I'm doing to actually accomplish that.
My Charity for this month is the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. I'll be donating (assuming I succeed) through my mother who is participating in their "Team in Training" program.
Organizing photos/music/etc is hard stuff.
I got to re-org when I got my new computer and believe me, it's a pain in the arse.
Start with a good plan. Not set in stone, but fairly firm anyway. Know what you WANT to get out of it.
Will you be organizing the recipes only on paper or will you be doing that digitally as well?
For the physical CD's I'll be organizing by artist name, with compilations at the end. The only genre seperation I plan to do is Holiday music.
On the computer, I think I'll seperate my music from TBWITWW's stuff (at least the stuff I have no interest whatsoever in), as well as Holiday stuff. Just to make it easier to put on random playlists.
The recipies are just paper for the time being. We've got many of them on the computer, but that's more for backup and sharing with others. As we don't (yet) have a computer in the kitchen, the electronic ones aren't a lot of use.
It all sounds complicated to me... I've been doing a lot of reorganizing myself, going through papers and creating files for them or throwing them away. It takes a LOT of time! It's hard to stay on task sometimes. But, I know you can get the job done! Of course, I'm really hoping you make your goal since this month's charity is the project I'm working on. Every little bit helps me get closer to my goal! Thanks!!!
Good job, son! I'm proud of you!!!
Love, Mom