Alright, so maybe not ALL the things. Some of the things? Instead of going to Green Bluff and frolicking through pumpkins I convinced myself (and Zippercow) that there were more important things we needed to do here. I may have been right, but kind of wish I wasn’t. So after cleaning the house, garage and doing some fall planting I decided to tackle the puzzle cupboard.
Ugh.
The puzzle cupboard is a a small cupboard in our entertainment stand that has all of Little Moo’s puzzles. In all I think he has more than ten puzzles and I believe almost all the pieces (of the 25 piece puzzles) were in a giant pile mixed on the bottom shelf. Just thinking about it makes me itch and he wasn’t ever putting any of them together because I think he too was overwhelmed by the chaos of it all. To top it off any time the cupboard was opened most of its contents would spill onto the floor, much to Littlest Moos delight. So I decided to remedy that.
Thanks to one of my favorite blogs Thrifty Decor Chick I think I have a great way to keep all the pieces off the floor and organized enough that Little Moo will actually find them useful.
I started with cutting out the picture from the front of the box.
Then I wrote the name of the puzzle, how many pieces it had (because on some of them the piece count got cut off) and then numbered it.
Then I put that number on all the pieces that belonged to that puzzle.
Lastly I put each puzzle with the front of its box in its own quart size Ziploc and put them all in a plastic shoe box bin.
Tada!!!! No more hives for Mommy! The best part? Little Moo has already used the puzzles more in the last three days than he has in the last 6 months! Success!
I love the occasional productive day!
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