How to Organize Your Household Manuals

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I’ve been on a massive organizational mission the past few months and came across my stack of user manuals in the kitchen cabinet.

They were all just piled into a plastic basket with no rhyme or reason to them. And there were some really, really old ones there just cluttering up my space!

What a mess!

So I came up with a better way to organize them while keeping them in the kitchen.  I don’t really have any filing cabinets in the house, but I’d like to change that very soon.

My brilliant and oh-so-novel idea was to use a notebook and plastic page protectors. (Ok. So maybe it’s neither brilliant nor novel, but it works like nobody’s bidness.)

First, I sorted through the manuals and trashed the ones I didn’t need anymore… like the old manual I had for a smoothie maker that broke about 8 years ago.

Then started putting the manuals I wanted to keep in the page protectors.

But there were some that were very thick and unwieldy.  In that case, I ripped them apart to keep only the English sections since that’s my jam.

I grouped them as best I could by category.  So I kept all the laundry type manuals together and all the kitchen appliance type manuals together and so on.

I put all the pages in my notebook.  After decluttering them and ripping out the unnecessary parts, the notebook was pretty full but not overly so.

Here’s all the trash I had leftover!

Then I went through and added stick on labels to the sections to make things easier to find.

My notebook was finished.. but, alas, plainer than Jane on a twin engine plane.

Can’t have that, right?  So I created a fun Household Manuals Printable. My notebook has a plastic sleeve on the outside where I could slide it in, and it’s protected.

I thought I’d share this printable with all my fellow organization freaks!

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Are you going to organize your manuals now?  Or do you have a different method?

Let me know down in the comments below!