Getting Organized - Oink!

While this is not my expertise, I like to think that I am a pretty organized person.  Dealing with incredibly detailed events and handling multiple deadlines at a time can force you to come up with a system pretty quickly.  So...funny that I think I married one of the most unorganized people ever.  At least that's how it would appear to the outsider with the piles around our house.  His best man even joked during his speech at our wedding that his idea of cleaning up was doing an arm sweep into the nearest drawer.  Even more funny, is that he normally knows where everything is, unless I move it to try and put it away.  We are a chaotically organized household between the two of us.

I am helping him get ready to start his new adventure of possibly opening up his food truck concept. You can read a bit more about Oink here.  So, as a gift I put together a binder for him to keep all of his important documents, notes and other items all in one place.  Without this, I can see the piles and a number of yellow legal pads with notes scratched on them all over the house in the very near future.

I'm not sure this is the answer for everyone, but I thought this would be a great place for some to start and expand on as things progress.  Here's what I did for him!

Custom Folder:

I purchased a 2 inch 3-ring binder with the window on the front so I could put together a cover branding the folder.  So, he can't confuse it with anything else!

Pencil Pocket:

Purchasing one of these really took me back.  I don't think I have bought one since I was in grade school to put in the front of my Trapper Keeper.  And by the way if I could have found a Trapper Keeper, he would have one right now!  But a great place to keep pens, zip drives, even business cards as this will be a tool he takes with him everywhere.

Note Pad:

I made sure to buy one with three ring holes so he could store it in the folder, but take it out if he only needed to travel with the notepad.  But this way, all of his notes are in one place!

Dividers:

I bought the 8 pack so he would have room to put his business plan as a reference for meetings, a to do list to check off his tasks and monitor progress, track his expenses, keep his research findings, etc.

I'm not sure he was a fan of all the pink, but it goes with his logo and theme of the truck, so I am sure he will come to love pink!  

Cheers!

Kristen