There is a lot of paperwork involved in parenting. Who knew! But every new purchase comes with a receipt, a warranty, and a manual, and as anyone who has ever wondered if their car seat is installed properly, or fought with their allegedly easy-to-collapse stroller knows, it helps to keep the instructions handy!
Over on Parenthacks this week, a handy how-to for organizing all of those product manuals.
We like the suggestion to staple the reciept to the manual, in case you ever have to provide proof-of-purchase, helpful for recalls and returns.
Don't have a filing system yet? We recommend starting with Lifehacker and Clutter Wizard as good places to start.
How do you manage all the manuals that come with baby stuff? Did you come up with a genius solution for managing the paperwork that comes with parenting? Adoptive parents, your paperchasing often produces reams of documents, so you start the organization process earlier than most - how did you keep it organized?
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Oh! Have you guys not featured www.justorganizeyourstuff.com yet? It's a beautiful yet amazingly functional organizing system. It's gorgeous and it works. I love mine. She even has specialized stuff for organizing kid stuff. It's amazing.
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Ah, filing. The bane of my life. I'm a complete dunce at it (particulary since I'm extremely lazy, plus I hoard--not a good combo) and am ever thankful for PDF manuals online.
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Never seen this before or heard of justorganizeyourstuff.com but will check them both out now. Can always use help with organizing.
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Hi Kristin. We've recently moved and I'm working on my 10 month old's room, so I really appreciate this site. I'm actually writing because I took the picture you've used in this post. It's a picture of our filing system, The Financial Planning Organizer Kit. I don't mind you using it, but since you're posting about helpful filing systems, I thought I might just mention ours. You and your readers can find out more about it on our website at http://www.homefile.com and my blog, http://www.homefile.blogspot.com.
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