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Index Cards to Keep Track of Seldom Used Items

When reorganizing my home, I used to forget where seldom-used items got redirected to. After some frustrations, I learned to keep a recipe card file of alphabetized note cards, one for each item I moved. Now, when I can't seem to remember where I put the bead weaving loom or the tabletop easel, I just go to the card file and am reminded.

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By ChurchGrandma (j.a.) Manweiler from MT

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December 17, 20100 found this helpful

Fantastic! As long as one remembers where the file is! ;) This is one that I have been waiting for and will adopt immediately. Thanks.

 
December 18, 20100 found this helpful

Glad to see someone else has this problem. I am forever putting my g p s or camera someplace so I'll know where it is,and by the next week I wonder where that is. Then the hunt begins.

 

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December 22, 20100 found this helpful

Definitely sounds like an excellent plan! If you have a desk or home office where the card file could find a home, that might keep it from getting lost. I have an alternative that would work for me: create a file on your computer. Use whichever program would work best for you, whether it's Word/Wordperfect, Notepad, or Excel. If you use Excel as I would, it would be easy to set up. First column, name the item. Second, mark its last known location.

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Any third column could mark when it landed in its current location, and if you want to add supplemental info, that could go into a fourth column. For a word-processing document, info like this would probably be most convenient if formatted into a table. I prefer Excel for its better compatibility with my screen reader and the fact that I can set it to read the column title when I move from one column to the next.

 

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December 27, 20100 found this helpful

Wow, what a great idea. I wish you would have posted this information several years ago. I moved my atlas and a pair of dog nail clippers. I found the clipper about 3 years later and I have never found the atlas. I can visualize putting it behind a piece of furniture so the pages wouldn't get torn or wrinkled.

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Never to be seen again. It was about 2' X 2.5'. How do you lose track of something that large? I will certainly use your idea. Thanks.

 
June 27, 20120 found this helpful

I just started doing this after listening to my friend for years tell me that she does this. It is a great idea!

 
June 28, 20120 found this helpful

I have done this for several years on a Roladex, starting in my sewing and craft room where I have many many items and not all are see through. Then it worked so well and I have gotten older (memory?) that I have continued it though out.

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Some of my cabinets are really high, so this way I know where to put the step stool and get just the item I need.

 
March 15, 20150 found this helpful

This is a great idea, but I should do it in electronic form. The computer can sort things alphabetically, but you don't even need to do that. It's enough to press control+F (find) and type the item you need in the search box to find it in your document, and then in your home. I think this is quicker to set up than a rolodex, and it's harder to lose your computer than a little file. :)

 

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