Use Dymo Labels to get organized
I’m always looking for ways to get better organized, and I try to intersperse my sometimes-heavy posts here
with tips and tricks for home and office management. Today I want to talk about the Dymo labeler. I’ve owned one for a couple of years and use it for just about everything. Today I found a website that talks about using the Dymo for back to school.
The site lists some obvious and not-so obvious uses for the labels. Some of the ideas are adaptable to home or work, and even Scripture memorization (how about that??!!)
Check this out - use your Dymo (and appropriate label tape) to:
- Label<a href=”http://global.dymo.com/enUS/TipsAndAdviceCategory/Back_to_School_Time.html”>File folders</a> and kids’ school folders
- Put name tags in gym, daycare, or camp clothes
- label and customize lunch boxes
- use magnet tape to create words or numbers that can be manipulated - great for vocabulary, math, Scripture memory - and even games!
- Ensure the return of books, toys, games, sports equipment, gym bags, cell phones, and tennis shoes
Around the house, I use labels on everything from freezer items to videos and DVD’s. I’m about to create names for all of my spice jars in the kitchen. When I organized the office, all of my file folders got labels from the Dymo too - much easier to read than my handwriting!! (I write worse than most doctors). I’m also fixing to organize all of my craft stuff (I have an entire floor-to-ceiling bookshelf filled with boxes of stuff for mixed-media art) - I’ll be labeling the outside of the boxes, and then using smaller containers inside to corral the thousands of tiny items I have like beads, sequins, pieces of eggshell, and a huge assortment of fibers.
I like the fact that the labels give a very consistent look to any project!
Kayti’s also ready to go back to college in a few days, and she’ll be using labels to identify her belongings, label folders, and keep herself organized. She and her roommates tend to share stuff, and she ended up coming home with a few things that aren’t hers. If they’d been labeled with the Dymo labeler, they’d have gone home with the right roomie!
August 13th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
My father, Captain Gadget, got one of those about four years ago. For about a month he labelled everything in the house. He got Mom a new spice rack so that he could get a bunch of jars and label them. And when he ran out of things that needed labels, he started giving names to household objects, so that he could put nametags on them. Our vacuum cleaner, for example, is named Monica, and the ivy over the window is Sylvester.