I can not imagine running my house without a bulletin board or two, (or three or four). I suppose a lot of people put papers in sight with magnets on their fridge but that just feels cluttered to me so I prefer to use a bulletin board. If you don’t think that the papers you have on your fridge make your house feel cluttered and the fact that they fall off now and again when the fridge doors are opened, try this. Clear your fridge of every magnet, paper and doodad and clean the doors and the exposed sides of your fridge. Now look at it. Doesn’t that feel good? Ahhh. I can’t explain why a bulletin board with papers tacked to it is better visually than a fridge with the same papers magnetized to it but it just is.
The paper clutter issue bugs nearly everyone I know. If it isn’t the papers on the fridge then it’s the papers piled on the counter that is bugging them. A bulletin board can be one of the first steps in solving a paper clutter issue. I have a couple of small corkboard squares inside my computer armiore for passwords, receipts that I want to put into my pricebook, laminated Nicene Creed, and other papers and notes that relate to anything I will be doing on the computer. The kitchen, being central station of our house, has a prettier pottery barn bulletin where I keep our pocket calendar, my son’s class schedule, beatitudes ( We can always use a reminder of those), a photo or two, gym exercise class schedule, basketball game schedule and any school papers that require attention in the immediate future. My bigger kids have a small bulletin board in each of their rooms for motivational sticker charts, routine charts and calendars. Bulletin boards keep paper easy to find and prevent paper clutter from growing on horizontal surfaces. Even if your bulletin board gets cluttered, it will seem less cluttered visually than having a counter or table cluttered with paper piles.
2 comments:
How do you handle the little ones not sticking the tacks in their mouths or stepping on a random fallen tack? I am paranoid so I have not done bulletin boards yet. Lately I've designated an area on Celia's wall and just used that sticky tacky stuff to post charts, pictures, etc. I've thought about it for other areas in the house, too. I do hate the cluttered fridge and wish we had a stainless one that isn't magnetic!!!
Shannon
Good point. I guess I risk it (not good mothering approach). The two downstairs are out of reach but the ones in the kids rooms can be reached. The little one has grabbed a tack and gotten in trouble for it so it's just one of the hundreds of things he has been told "no" on. I bet there is a solution to this though. I believe there are magnetic bulletin boards but they just wouldn't hold as much. Can you just put them up high enough so that you can assist Celia when she is doing her charts and such but the little ones can't reach it?
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