Organizing All the Manuals

Ah, yes... manuals. Am I the only one who finds it necessary to save EVERY single manual? I have a manual for almost every thing I own that came with one. I don't throw them away. Especially for items that I will possibly resell in the future. I used to keep them filed in my filing cabinet, except for the kitchen ones, which I kept in a drawer in the kitchen.

But then I saw this pinspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/185210603397260625/

And I also thought... why am I not keeping the receipt with the manual?

This was also part of getting my filing cabinet reorganized, which you will see soon (sometimes I open it just to look at how pretty it is).

I started with one binder... and realized that it was impossible to fit them all in one. So I organized them by room and keep the binders in each room.

I bought the 3 on the right at Tuesday Morning. I think they were $2 each. The other 2 are ones I bought a while ago for other organization that became unused after I reorganized the filing cabinet. The binders in the original post are probably better, because the rings are bigger, but I wanted all of my binders to be the same size and I already had some that size, so I got more to match.

I had these stickers leftover from some organizing at work last year, so I used them to label the binders.

k : kitchen

b : bedroom & bathroom

c : computer

o : office

lr : living room

I am literal too. I store my vacuum and steam mop in my office, so those manuals are in the o binder (even though the steam mop is obviously never used in the office). When I got a new TV and moved the old one to my bedroom, the manual was moved from the lr binder to the b binder.

When I was cleaning out my receipts, I made sure I paid attention to any appliance or electronic, so I could add those to the binders.

And that's my cat. She was actually chasing her tail. Not curled up, sleeping peacefully. This is what she was doing while I was organizing manuals. Which is preferable to her laying on the manuals, running through the manuals, sliding around on the manuals, chewing on the manuals...