Okay, here is a weird one. This storage idea has been working great for the last eight months and I have to say that I was surprised how well it has worked out. The main problem was that my 11 year old crafty girl has a lot of great ideas, plenty of supplies, and not quite enough organizational motivation to manage it all. So her room was quite a disaster most of the time and when it was time to clean it up she was devastated and I was always frustrated. So I finally just emptied her room, sorted all her stuff, and devised a “library style” system of checking things out. Each craft type is stored in it’s own big paper grocery bag with handles (Trader Joe’s style) and hung on a hook in the laundry room.

When she wants to do something crafty, she comes and “checks out” one of the bags with her stuff. She then has to put it away before she can get something else out so that she will always still have room on her floor to throw her clothes! I have been really surprised by how well this library system has worked. I have also been pretty surprised that the paper bags have actually held up and not fallen apart. At this point I am figuring that I will have to replace a few bags in another six months and probably add a few as she has picked up a variety of new media to work with. The best part is that it’s free!

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