This is a sponsored post, but the experiences, forgetfulness, and expired-last-year coupons are all mine!
Surely I’ll start the school year with more presence of mind than I had when the last one ended.
Right?
You know that period when school feels new and exciting, and you remember everything you’re supposed to remember (permission slips, supplies, tests-to-be-signed, etc.)?
That period seems to get shorter and shorter each year.
I decided to make use of some of the ultra-cool products sent to me recently from the Home Collection by Post-it Brand and Scotch Brand. (They’re all available at The Container Store.)
This project was easier than my Fridge Makeover, simply because my starting point was a (mostly) blank space.
That is the door we go in and out of six or seven times . . . each morning.
Yep. That’s right.
1. Go out to the car to head to school.
2. Come back in for whatever we forgot.
3. Repeat as needed.
First, I cleaned the door. (How in the world do doors get so nasty?) I also purged the handy-dandy shelf nearby.
There wasn’t much other than some empty shoe-boxes (why?) and prizes from the summer library program of 2012.
Yes. 2012.
Anyway . . .
I used the Dry Erase Planner and the Dry Erase Message Center, both by Post-it Brand. I LOVE these products. First of all, there’s something so satisfying about a dry erase board, isn’t there?
But a board attached by a nail would never work on this oft-slammed back door.
These “boards”??? They’re stickable! They have an adhesive on the back, so they don’t fall to the ground every time the door closes!
Not that I would know anything about that . . .
I also used one of my very favorite products they sent:
My plan is to use this Post-it View and Go Pocket ONLY for things that have to go back to school. I don’t want it to be a Graveyard for Random Papers. I generally try to sign and send papers back immediately, but some things aren’t supposed to go back right away.
This pocket will help us keep those in one place.
So cool, right?
I placed the dry erase marker in the handy dandy shelf next to the door, and also used that as a spot to store my VERY favorite of the products they sent me.
Post-it Adhesive Reminder Tags.
These things . . . are made for me.
The Adhesive Reminder Tags are sticky at the end so they can easily be placed on a handle, or a doorknob, or whatever you’re going to grab as you leave the house in a mind-numbing hurry!
I used one within twenty minutes of the package arriving in the mail. I attached it to the handle of my son’s camp bag, reminding him to grab the things he needed to put in his bag at the last minute.
For example, the last pair of shorts that still had to go in the dryer . . .
I love knowing the tags are right by the back door, ready to be attached to backpacks and purses and such.
I’m so excited to see how this system works for us!
And now for the giveaway! Post-it Brand and Scotch Brand have agreed to send one winner the following:
- One package of Post-it Adhesive Reminder Tags
- One Post-it View and Go Pocket
- One Post-it Planner & Perforated List Pad (seen in my Fridge Makeover)
- One Post-it Dry Erase Planner
- One Post-it Dry Erase Message Center
- Two Scotch Display Frames
- One Scotch Restickable Display Strip
Wa-hoo!!!
This giveaway is now closed!
To enter, simply leave a comment on this post telling me which of these products gets your organizing juices flowing!!
See my giveaway policies here. Also please note that email subscribers will need come to the blog (just click on the post title) and leave a comment. Replying to the email won’t count as an entry.
This giveaway is open to U. S. residents only, and will close at 9 p.m. Central on Monday, September 23, 2013. I will email the winner, and he/she will have 48 hours to respond. If I don’t get a response, I’ll have to choose another winner.
This is a sponsored post. I was sent the products to review and was compensated for my time. However, the thoughts, opinions, experiences and extreme forgetfulness are all mine.
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--Nony
Boy could we use those adhesive tags around here! Maybe then my daughter will remember to take her half eaten lunch out of her backpack on Friday (blerg)
I LOVE the clear pockets. Perfect for my shopping list!
love the reminder tags!
The dry erase planner. I have two boys in every sport the school offers and it would be great for the whole family to be able to see where everyone is at on any particular day.
Thanks for sharing, simple reminders on post its!
The Post-it Planner & Perforated List Pad. I am always looking for my notepad.
I love the reminder tags. I’m trying to get the 13 year old to be more self-sufficient, maybe these reminders would take a load off of me. 🙂
Oh my! I NEED those! A house full of ADDer’s!
I’d love the dry erase planner! And off the subject I’d love the older posts link to be bigger so I can catch up on all the old posts I’ve missed. I always search for it lol. 🙂
The reminder tags… are they long enough to fit an 11-year old’s wrists? Not sure who would use them more, my daughter, who needs to come back inside for things AFTER we have backed out of the driveway, or me!
OMG, I need to go out and buy some of those reminder tags!! My husband HATES how many times I have to come back in and grab additional things after getting in the car, after backing out, and then after closing the garage door. I swear I’m always forgetting things that a tag would help remind me to grab!!
I’m digging the reminder tags too!
I love the reminder tags!
I like the dry erase message center.
Those clear pockets magical!
I can’t wait to try the reminder tags!
Another one for the Post-it Adhesive Reminder Tags! It looks like they could also be used as labeing tags 😀
Would love to have the dry erase message center.
All of these would be good for me. Full time working mom with 3 very active kids…..i feel like a chicken with my head cut off sometimes!
I need those reminder tags – they look awesome!
I would love the planner and perforated list pad for grocery and meal planning! I am trying to cut down on trips to the store and re-buying items we already have. 🙂
I can’t decide!! The clear pockets would be awesome for things to remember to take to school (the check for the fundraising that’s been sitting on the counter for the past 2 weeks…) and the reminder tags could be attached to so many things (especially when getting ready for a vacation!!)
I LOVE all the products, but especially the dry erase board and reminder tags! We need an out the door command center just like the one you set up. Great post!
definitely the tags for backpacks and purses and such. What a great idea!! I have a son who forgets something AT SCHOOL everyday, so maybe a tag on his backpack will help him remember to bring home his assignments and schoolbooks for homework. 🙂
Definitely the Display Frames…. because everything looks better framed!
It’s a tie between the adhesive tags and the View and Go pocket! BUT I WANT THEM ALL….. 🙂
Oh, those Adhesive Reminder Tags look like fun!!
Wow, this would ALL be perfect right now! Yesterday my son forgot his soccer cleats, this morning it was his school planner, and I got to the grocery store without my list. Clearly we have a need! I already had a dry-erase planner on my list, but didn’t know where to put it permanently. I love the repositionable adhesive!
I would love to use a post it stick on planner to jot down all the lunch requests 🙂
Great article on how no to forget.
It is hard to pick just one, but the Planner and Perforated List Pad would get a ton of use in my house!
I LOVE those adhesive tags – didn’t know they existed. Over 25 years ago I learned from coworker to write a note on a piece of paper, wrap it around my purse handle, then staple. It was annoying hanging there, but it worked! And now there’s a much nicer product to do the same thing.
The adhesive reminder tags sure would be easier to use than stapling a piece of paper around my purse like I do now!
I love organizing stuff, and those reminder tags have to be the most awesome idea I’ve seen yet!
I love the reminder tags and the clear pocket! I need them! Are you sure you didn’t describe my morning routine? I always have to go back into the house for at least one thing we forgot, if not two or three times.
,The perforated pad would be awesome for meal planning, then again everything would be great to have!
The pocket and those tags!!
The Planner & Perforated List Pad seem to be a great idea for my “listing” brain. Finding a good place for the list is a different story.
•One Post-it Planner & Perforated List Pad (seen in my Fridge Makeover)
sounds amazing! I’ve redone my whole house in August (due to homeschooling needs), I didn’t even know Post it made these products!
Oh gracious! I already have the tacky strip for the fridge, the trick there is remembering to purge….
And the adhesive purse-strap strips….those have saved my bacon. Sticky notes do not stick to my purse well enough (tell me, why don’t they make super sticky little pads? Only big ones?) so I tape them on. I also might or might not know what a sticky note can do to the outside of a leather check-book and/or wallet (okay, so yes, I did it twice!)
Anyway, whoever wins this is going to have a terrific time playing with everything.
I think I may take the purse things to the “favorite things under $5” party we have each December to share w/ my friends!
my gosh the clear pocket is way too cool, but the purse strap thingy dingies would be great. As I use that system and staple it to my purse and occasionally cause a rip on my skin from the staples. this is pretty cool stuff to organize my Sometimers kind of mental challenges in the morning..
My husband is an engineer. This means he likes to collect small and strange items, in massive amounts, which he empties out of his pockets each night. Alas, these strange tidbits end up in the trash usually. That “restickable” post strip would be AWESOME. I could attach the weird, sundry items there for display…. and then if whichever are still there after a week or so hit the trash! Brilliant.
The reminder tags are brilliant! It seems not a day goes by that I don’t need to leave a little note at bedtime for myself, hubby or kids and I’m always afraid the note will be missed. These are the perfect solution!
Those adhesive reminder tags are A-MAZ-ING!! Between the kid’s school, Hubby’s Military career, and my own “stuff”, I’ll need 4 sets of everything to even begin to organize our hectic life! Thanks for such a wonderful giveaway!!
Oh, definately the reminder tags! I would put those to use so fast!
I think the view and go pockets would be fabulous
the reminder tabs are brilliant. On the school bags, the diaper bag, the last minute pack on luggage.
Perforated list would be cool.
Whataburger is awesome….you’re so lucky you live near one. The post it reminder tags would be awesome for my oldest child who is so very active and so very forgetful as well.
I’m intrigued by those adhesive tags. 🙂
I love those reminder tags!!
The view and go pocket looks awesome! Also, the reminder tags…brilliant.
The view and go pocket is something we could really use! Thanks for hosting!
I could definitely use the reminder tags to get me going! Thanks for the chance.
I wish I had found this blog when you started back in 2009, I just found this today, and I started reading it backwards. You are totally speaking my language, I cannot seem to keep it together for any length of time. I go through exhaustive cleaning/organizing sessions, only to take a “break” and the house is a disaster all over again. You have really inspired me, I’m not sure how I will make myself accountable, but I need to change things for myself and my family! Thank you for writing this blog!
Welcome, Trish!!
Love the view-and-go page! Thanks for opportunity!!
I want to try the reminder tags
oH DEFINITELY THE rEMINDER Tags! (Maybe I need one on my computer that says “Check for cap locks”. Oh and definitely one that says — DO YOUR 3 PRIORITIES FIRST BEFORE LOOKING AT EMAILS. (mY DOWNFALL). tHANK YOU!
Those reminder tags are awesome! Regular post its often flutter away. these look pretty secure and hopefully hard to ignore!
I think that we could really use those Post-it adhesive reminder tags in our home. We homeschool our kids on Tuesday and Thursday. My son works so hard all week on his home study assignments and then forgets to turn in his work it get credit for it when he goes on campus on Fridsy morning. The tags would be perfect to put on his bag! I would also use them for the bags of clothing that I PLAN to donate to various places. I am a slob by nature but an organized person in my own mind, so I am hoping that they will help me become the orderly person that I desire to be. I will let you know how it goes! Thanks so much for the ideas!
I love those reminder tags! I am always forgetting stuff too and feel like a crazy person in the mornings before school. Thanks for the giveaway!
I think the reminder tags would be AWESOME!! My kids are just too much like me. We think of something we need to grab before we leave the house while we are doing something else, but then don’t think of it again…..until we are 10 miles down the road!! **sigh** :/ These would be great to add to backpacks, sports bags,and definitely Momma’s purse!!! 🙂
Love all of it! But I think since my husband and I work opposite shifts and our daughter works and attends college I’m going to say the Dry Erase Board would be most useful to us.
Don’t enter me in the drawing. I already have some of these same products…but a different brand. I do want to say that my adult onset ADD (not sure if it’s an actual affliction, but that’s what I call it) kicked in while reading this. I have two self-adhesive white boars in my office. The larger one is on a cabinet door, the other in on the small door on the top part of my desk. I love them, but found that if you leave messages – or schedules with nice lines and columns – on too long, the marks don’t want to come off.
I’d gotten used to shadows from old marks being there, but decided to Google the issue just now. My office smells awful (WHY do dry erase markers smell so bad?), but now the problem board is totally white again. What did I do? Scribbled over the shadow marks with another marker, in small patches, and quickly wiping with tissues in a circular motion before it had a chance to dry. Took a few minutes, but it was well worth the effort.
Just thought I’d share that in case you leave some notes on for a while. 🙂
Thanks for that tip!
Glad it helped. I’ve had to stop and admire my white board a few times because it looks so….white…again. I don’t even want to put a mark on it again yet. 🙂
I had never seen those adhesive tags, those are cool!
All of those look very useful especially the Post-it Dry Erase Message Center. That and the other products i could definitely use.
I love the dry erase center. With being pregnant and what seems like endless classes and appointments it would be perfect!
The view & go pocket hands down! Thanks!
I would love it all!! But if I have to pick my favorite it would be the view and go pocket. That would be so helpful for all kinds of stuff! School papers, the letter I’m supposed to mail, the paper I’m supposed to take to the doctor….love it!!
Those reminder tags are such a good idea. Why didn’t we think of that? Who knows? Maybe I did and then I forgot.
I am loving those reminder tags!!! What an awesome idea! Thanks for the chance!
I could definitely use the dry erase planner. Thank you!
Love them all but I definitely need the Post-It Adhesive Tags! I always think I will remember that I need to add something to a backpack or baseball bag but never do and end up having to drive 20 min to the school and 20 min back home!
Which ONE????
Well, on sober contemplation, the one that made me want to grab my car keys – at 4:30 in the morning!! – is the adhesive reminder tags. Those are sheer GENIUS!
Reminder tags … yes!!!
The adhesive reminder tags would get a full work-out here!!! Could definitely get thrilled to win this give away. Thanks for the sharing that you do.
The adhesive reminder tags are brilliant!
I’m really eager to try those adhesive reminder tags.
The adhesive reminder tags are for me, baby! I didn’t know these existed!!! I use scotch tape and post-it notes and they don’t always stick to what is needed. I come home to find the note on the floor (or shredded by the dog) and my item forgotten. Case in point – the bicycle I was supposed to bring to get new tires for was left in the garage and I remembered 15 minutes after I got to where I needed to be with the bicycle. Yeah… good times.
These look awesome! I especially am interested in the Adhesive Reminder Tags & dry erase message center.
I love the reminder tags. I have been so desperate that I have left my keys in the fridge with my leftover lunch just so I would remember to take it home!
I think the reminder tags are an awesome idea. They would really help me out. I love the look of all the products.
The reminder tags! Definitely need those… :o)
My favorite is the whiteboard planner with the tear away notepad. Maybe THEN people will know where the grocery list is! Thanks for sharing all this cool stuff!
Those reminder tags look great! I would so use those!
I love post it notes or anything post-it for that matter. The reminder tags are more for me and my husband than anyone else, although the kids would befefit from them too! Thanks for the chance at a giveaway! Melissa
I think the Planner and Perforated List Pad would get used the most at my house. I love the encouragement and honesty your blog provides.
The dry erase looks cool. I would probably have to velcro a dry erase marker nearby. I like the pocket thing too, but it would fall off within a month with all sorts of papers that I would put there and forget about…
Those reminder tags look amazing! I could totally use them!
I would love those reminder tags, I’m constantly attaching Post It notes to my purse so I don’t forget things. These would work much better!
The reminder tags would do great around here. i could also use them for little love notes to hubby on his keys, or lovey notes for the kids. Great invention!!
I would love to try the Post-it view and go pockets. I love office supplies almost as much as I love kitchen gadgets. According to my daughter I have an addiction,lol.
The reminder tags!!!!! Those would be so helpful!!
The dry erase calendar!
My family really needs the dry erase planner!!!
I am LOVIN’ the Adhesive Reminder Tags. !!! I was just informed from my counselor who attended a recent ADHD conference, that those who use the right-hemisphere of the brain seek & crave visual stimulus! As I thought about what she said, I couldn’t think of a single example where my response wasn’t stimulated organically by a visual reminder. I am list-maker; I take snapshots of where I placed my keys last in my mind; I rely solely on my calendar to survive; I remember squat on my own; yup- sounds like I’m visual. These Adhesive Reminder Tags are going to be AWESOME.
ALL of them! But the dry erase message center would be awesome. I have dry erase boards all over my fridge. Less is more!
Those pockets are great too! My son already has 3 missing assignments at school because he forgot them on the table. Sad.
Those reminder tags are genius!! I could see myself using them a couple times a day!
They all look so awesom, but I’m totally digging the adhesive reminders and the dry erase message center.
With 2 kiddos in school now I can use all the help I can get remembering things. 🙂
Love your website! The only one that I can relate to! I would love to have several things in the giveaway, but the reminder tags I could use almost everyday! Didn’t know there was anything like that available:) I’m so forgetful!
I have to choose just one? The reminder tags and the pocket sound awesome, as does the dry erase board! I was JUST thinking of painting my back door with magnetic paint, but this sounds even better!
I could definitely use those reminder tags!
The reminder tags look awesome! They seem like they would be so handy!
The adhesive reminder tags are my favorite. Especially since I wrote a note on the back of my hand so I wouldn’t forget something in the fifteen minutes between church and home Sunday. Home where I set a reminder on my phone so I wouldn’t forget forever.
Can’t wait to check out the reminder tags. The display strip too. So smart!
Very excited about the dry erase planner … and any post-it dry erase stick/resticker.
Those reminder tags look awesome! I would love to use those!
It would have to be the dry eraser planner AND the view and go pockets !
Um, hello, ALL of these products excite me. I might even trample someone for those new adhesive reminder tags. I saw a post it note the other day that was about 3/4 the size of a normal sheet of paper and it had lines on it. I am still dreaming of it. I would be G.I.D.D.Y. if I win.
I have no idea how I have lived without those reminder tags in my life!! I NEED THEM right now. They are brilliant and will change my life. Seriously.
Those reminder tags are amazing. I can see how they would be very useful. Just placing a piece of paper on your bag as a reminder can easily fail for many reasons, but if the reminder is around your bag then you can’t help but see it!
I love those reminder tags. They look very useful for me and my family.
Those adhesive reminder tags look like a lifesaver for me! I always stick post-it notes on my phone, wallet, or in my pocket but then they’re out of sight and out of mind. Love the new command station – brilliant!
The reminder tags definitely!!
I saw the restickable display strip featured elsewhere – it looks awesome!
They all do!
Adhesive reminder tags! I neeeeeeeed these!
Love, Love, LOVE the adhesive pockets – I stick “stupid notes” on the back door – at eye level – but they somehow end up on the floor. Also the adhesive reminder tags would be a lifesaver. I have a feeling I would be going to the store for the “econo” size soon.
Love the Go Pockets, but the post it reminder tags are a close second. Making the back of the door as your command center is a great idea!
I would love a set of the go pockets! Do you think I could post them on my forehead? LOL
The reminder tags are definitely my favorite! I love the idea of having them near the door. But I would also use them as love notes or encouragement notes! love it!!!!
P.S. Once my 10 year wrote on every single note in a post it pad and hid each one in every nook and cranny in my Grandma’s (her great-grandma) apartment! That was in April and she is STILL finding hidden sticky notes this month! XOXO
I would love these for our morning command center.
Reminder tabs!!! Could you put 2 end to end so my kids could have a reminder bracelet????
I could use a whole station like yours! I’d use the pockets the most, I’d need 3 pockets, one for each kid! That would save me having to run checks or permission slips out the day of an event or due date!
The dry erase planner would be a lifesaver around here!
I love the idea of those reminder tags. How convenient!
The reminder tags would be so helpful!!
The reminder tabs are a fabulous idea. I think Jenny Mosler’s idea of a reminder bracelet is fantastic. May I suggest putting pre-printed chores on the tabs so I can put them on a day, week, month to be done center that the kids could then put on their done center so I don’t have to keep track of chores on a chart….
The reminder tabs would be so much cuter than whatever torn piece of paper I’m using with a crayon written note! Yes!! I need all of these items!!
The dry-erase planner would be an excellent tool to use in our household.
I like the message center and the planner.
the tags would be very helpful, bur i love everything postit!!!
I love post-its for home schooling! Man those adhesive tags would be used all the time!!!
Those reminder tags would be so awesome!
Oh. My. Goodness. Reminder tags. Soooo awesome.
Oh I’d love those tags too!
Love the reminder tags! I would definitely need to throw one on my purse to remember my own lunch!
I love the reminder tags. What a great idea! There seems to be always a little thing that needs to be added and what a great way to remind me! 🙂
The dry erase planner would get a ton of good use in our house!
As a teacher, I would use the adhesive reminder tags to remind me to bring things from home to school the next day. Like figs for taste testing this Monday when we learn the ig family words. I would wrap the notes on my computer bag!
The dry erase message center sounds great!
Love the Post-it View and Go Folders!
Those adhesive reminder tags are coooool! I’ve never seen those before.
Wow! Those Post-it Adhesive Reminder Tags look like the answer to so many forgotten items that I realize we left when I’m halfway down the road! I would probably be attaching them to my husband’s lunch box for reminders to pick up things after work… or love notes! 😀
Oh Nony,
With 2 boys, 10 and 7, we forget gym shoes, homework, water bottles, etc., and the reminder tags and see through pockets would be heaven sent for us as we run out the door each morning.
Thanks!
All the products are nifty, but the adhesive tags are the most creative idea I’ve sen for a long time!
The dry erase planner would be great!
I’m thinking the reminder tags will be stuck to EVERYTHING in my house. 🙂
One Scotch Restickable Display Strip. I can’t tell you how many bits of tape and falling post-its I have around my house; it’s shameful! Restickable strips sound amazing 🙂
I agree with you…the reminder tags. I use notes and regular post-its for that purpose now, but they’ve been blown off on more than one occasion.
I love the idea of those adhesive reminder tags. That would definitely work better than trying to keep up with the random little bits of paper we tend to use now.
Oh my goodness, I absolutely love the idea of the Post-it Adhesive Reminder Tags!!! Now that is exciting. I can already think of plenty of things I would use these for…and, yes, even for myself 🙂
Oh man, the adhesive bag tags are genius! I could even use them on the fridge handle to remind the kids about their kitchen chores.
What wonderful products! Thanks for sharing your ideas. I’d love to try the planner and perforated list pad. In my mind that would help with dinner ideas and grocery shopping.