Works For Me Wednesday: Take-Out Menus

It didn't occur to me that this was all that fantastic an idea until a friend came over and told me it was! I'll take her word for it and share it with you.

Frustrated by all of the stuff jammed into that drawer (you know the one), I decided to make a stab at organization by putting all of the take-out menus for local restaurants together.

You would think I'd have thought of doing this years ago. Sleep deprivation is an ugly thing.

Putting all of the take-out menus together (in a binder, in plastic sleeves) makes them easy to find and keeps me from having to open that drawer! Also, being able to find take-out menus eliminates long phone conversations with our favorite Chinese Restaurant employees who don't all have a firm grasp on The C.F.O.'s Cajun accent. Go figure. It isn't often that we order out, so we like the experience to be as stress free as possible. The cost of feeding this crew is stressful enough.

I keep my take-out binder on my cookbook shelf. It's one of my three favorite cookbooks. HA!

Please, leave me a comment and let me know how you keep that drawer organized. If you have an extra minute, gaze upon my binder cover (beautifully decorated by The Butterfly), take a spin around my site, and then zip on over and find out if Shannon at Rocks In My Dryer knows where her take-out menus are. I bet she does!

Comments

[phyllis]

this is what we do too, and whenever someone is over they laugh at me for being an organizing geek...but you know what, it really does work!

[Pink Jeweled Cat]

What a great suggestion! I don't like 'that drawer' either. Although we recently moved into a new house that had five times the drawers we had in the previous house, so we've now got two of them! *cries* One of these days I might get motivated enough to slim it down to one. Ta for now dahling!

[Hayley]

We have that binder, and have had it for a while. It is a touch of sanity in an insane world, but what do I do with the rest of the drawer?

[Nap Warden]

Oh, my menu drawer is a mess, I'm going to do this. Great idea!

[Rebecca]

*That* drawer is going down soon, I found a great organizer, so now instead of calling it my junk drawer it will be my misc stuff drawer, once I buy the organizer. A couple months ago I did get tired of loose papers on the countertops and put together a household management file of sorts. It's small enough to keep in an extra drawer but has all household related papers in it - coupons, menus, quick reference for numbers & product manuals. I think I'll do a post about it next WFMW rather than in your comments section. Great idea & that would be a favorite cook book of mine as well.

[Louise]

No take out menus in our home, because we're always traveling somewhere new. We're Olive Garden junkies, though, because they're everywhere and we know EXACTLY what to expect :-)

That (junk) drawer in our place is still an issue, nevertheless. The only way I can keep it under control is to use lots of little bins to keep similar items together and to purge it regularly. I need advice on how to keep hubby from buying more highlighters and filling the drawer!

[laane]

I've put them all online on our city page.

And the drawer? It's forbidden to throw anything in it. LOL!

[Sunshine]

I have the same thing and I always slip the coupons behind them so that I can use them when we order. We always use a coupon and never pay full price.