Organize your life with Smead: Review

As a family with two parents who work outside the home and two daughters in two different schools, you can imagine the amount of paperwork that piles up on my desk. From bills to permission slips, book orders to pictures, you name it and it’s in a huge pile. This Summer, SMEAD is challenging you to go from piles to files with their new file system!

stadiumfileMy space is quite limited, so I was honestly skeptical about whether or not a file system on my desk would work for me. But, I was pleasantly surprised that this system does not take up much space at all. I was sent an expanding Stadium File that has enough room for 12 folders which are displayed in a tiered fashion so all the folders can be seen at once.  The Smead SuperTab file folders work great in the Stadium File System because they have nearly double the labeling space and three tab positions to increase their visibility.  The folders come in a wide variety of colors, too, so organizing is a snap!

Part of this new organizational line by Smead is the Viewables labeling system.  These printable labels make customizing your folders very easy and even includes software for flawless design.  While I prefer to hand write my labels, I think the printed labels look very nice and would be more professional in an office setting.

I created a color coded system for each family member so now I can easily file papers when they come home from school and find them again as a deadline approaches.  The new file system as definitely lowered my paperwork frustration!

Want to try the products for yourself?  Join Smead’s Twitter Party tomorrow, June 16th at 11am CST.  They will give away lots of organizational products, share tips and one participant will win a $50 AMEX gift card! Follow @hostrock and use #filefun to get in on all the action!

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Smead provided products to facilitate this review and a $20 Target gift card to compensate for my time.  All opinions remain 100% mine.

    Get Buttoned Up: Review and Giveaway

    Whenever anyone asks me how I am doing, my standard answer has become “busy!”  With the school year in full swing, the holidays on the horizon, and the zillion events we are trying to attend between now and the New Year, it’s about enough to make someone go nuts!  Well, we have found a resource for the crazy rat race with Buttoned Up!

    About Buttoned Up from the website:   “Buttoned Up, Inc. was founded in 2004 by four women, three sisters and a best friend. They realized the necessity for a tool like Life.doc after experiencing significant life changes. Each of them felt the need to get their lives organized but were unable to find products that could help them control their chaos. They wanted to be liberated from the rigid organizational systems that they bought annually and stopped using after just a few weeks.  After several years of trial, error, effort and research, they started Buttoned Up whose mission is to give women the tools they need to live an organized life not a life of organization.”

    Buttoned up sells organizational products and kindly sent me two of their wonderful organizational tools to check out.  First, I got the Collison Kit, which is perfect should (God forbid) I ever involved in a fender bender.  The Collision Kit is small enough to stick in a glove compartment, and holds a disposable  camera, pen, and clipboard with pre-printed forms to remind you to get all the details, including information from the other driver(s) and witnesses. There is even an envelope for your insurance card and registration!  This is a GREAT stocking stuffer  for a new driver or child going off to college.  I love gifts that are thoughtful and this is definitely one of them…..a much better idea than socks or fruitcake!

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    The second item Buttoned up sent me is the Birthday Book , which is a great way to store all the important birthdays I need to remember.  The Birthday book includes a list of  important dates to remember month by month as well as a list of traditional gifts for anniversaries and gemstones that correspond to each month.  This would be a perfect little gift for  my Dad, who literally carries around a business card in his wallet with a list of the family birthdays on it, as well as his own….no lie.  Does Buttoned up sell a memory card for Dad’s brain?  Anyway……

    The Buttoned Up website is awesome, easy to read, and chock full of tips to keep yourself on track.  The store carries a lot more than just the two products I received, and they are all offered for a very reasonable price.  For just a few bucks you can keep everyone organized this year!  The website offers countless tips for gift ideas, de-cluttering, keeping your finances on track, and more!

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    Want to get Buttoned Up?  The Not So Blog is one winner their choice of either the Collision Kit or the Birthday Book!

    How to enter:

    1. Visit the Buttoned Up and tell me another product that would help you get organized!

    Additional entries

    1. Blog about this giveaway and link to The Not-So-Blog (10 extra entries).

    2. Follow me (@BridgetteLA) and Buttoned Up on Twitter and Tweet this giveaway. Every time you tweet you get an additional entry! Unlimited! (You must have over 50 Twitter followers to qualify for unlimited entries!)

    3. Subscribe to my blog.

    4. Become a Fan of The Not-So-Blog on Facebook.

    Contest ends at 11:59pm CST on December 2nd. Prizes not claimed in 72 hours will be forfeited. Open to U.S. Residents only.

    This review is the opinion of The Experimental Mommy. Other may have a different experience with the product. Thank you to Buttoned Up for supplying the product for review.