Most Tuesdays I like to share a tip with you! Sometimes its a new one that I have discovered…sometimes it ones that I have shared before but totally feel like it is worth sharing again and that is what today is about!
I make no bones about it….I am not a fan of Walmart as honestly… it stresses me out!
I have blogged about these little cubes for a great way to store things in your craft area and I get emails often about….WHERE DID YOU GET THEM? I love ideas of storage that makes our lives easier…and these little gems do just that!
I find at this time of the year….Walmart does have them at a great price (I guess I should thank them) and they come in fun colors for the back to school craze that happens each year. This is the only time that I seem to find fun colors…and a fun price!
Here is the scoop on them of the why’s I like them and find them super useful!
- For just .97 how can you go wrong (other than having to fight the crowds in the store) and right now the fun colors that I saw were navy, pink, teal, bright blue, a weird green, red and I am sure there are others……
- These cubes stack on top of each other so if space is an issue for you….these are great to stack depending on the height of what you put in…
- I use them mainly for storing my 6″ X 6″ Paper Stacks and also discontinued paper that I have that I want for the future (I cut it to 6″ X 6″)
- I use them when I am working on projects to keep things orderly ….like when I am working on a kit…I use a cube to put in the elements for a certain card…then I can stack others and have everything neat & tidy
Now here is another thing that is great to get at this time of year….the VINYL FOLDERS (below you will see it in Yellow) These can get pricy but at this time of year is when to get them and then do surgery on them!!! 😀
WHAT???? SURGERY????…Yep, type A Susan here…
I like to cut them up and use them as dividers for my paper. You know that I am a HUGE fan of the PTouch Label Maker…well to keep me organized I make a label with the name of whatever and then put if on the Vinyl divider that I made….
The reason that I do this is that the labels peel off if the item is ever discontinued and then I can re-use it! (you see…there is always methods to my madness). The dividers are super thin so they do not take much room but they are also super sturdy so you can use them over and over!
You will only get (2) dividers per (1) vinyl folder but there are scraps that you will find a use for. True it is an investment (but soooooo inexpensive) and then you will always have them to use over and over. (I do use the corner rounder of my envelope punch board to round the edges, I told you I was Type A)
The picture tells the story but here it is in more depth. The grey chipboard on the right is what comes in our DSP when we get it (usually the heavy one like this is with the speciality DSP)
It is great for packaging if you are mailing something and you do not want it to bend but today I am showing you how I cut that up for dividers. When I have a DSP that is retired….I move it to a cube and peel off the label from the vinyl divider and put it on this chipboard!
Because I always have swatch books of the DSP (and YES – I will be doing a Product Share for the new catalog) I can always reference the DSP that I have in the cubes. You can tuck the swatch books of the paper offerings in the back of the cube.
There you go…your TIP for your Tuesday! I find little things like these posts to be helpful so of course I want to share! I warn you….enter Walmart at your own risk….it’s a crazy place this time of year and the shelves are a total mess!
Here is my funny for going yesterday! I first needed to pop by Jeanie’s house….when I said – I need to run as I have to pop into Walmart for my blog post for tomorrow….Her face was PRICELESS….her glasses came off…her jaw dropped and then she said – WHY IN THE WORLD DO YOU NEED TO GO THERE!?!?
When I told her…this huge laugh exploded and then quickly she said…”great – pick me up some while you are there!” Gotta love a friend!
Love, love, love your tips! Yes, Walmart this time of year is, let’s say, a little “wild.” Your are brave. I could just picture Jeanie’s face…..priceless! ?
I love your type A tips!! Thank you;))
I always find your tips helpful, Susan. Have a great day!
Great informational tips!!! My craft room overfloweth!!!!!!! ??
Susan went to WALLY WORLD ! That`s my name for it ( the name is from Chevy Chase`s movie VACATION) There are Walmarts of every description . Some are nightmares to shop in and then there are some like the one my daughter Skye`s little town that is like a big modern ,brightly lit department store ! LOVE THE CRAFT SECTION! I love office supplies and this is my favorite time of year …when school supplies come out !!
I get those little cubes at The Dollar Tree (LOVE TO SHOP THERE )
There are Dollar Trees just like the varied Wally Worlds!!
Thank you Susan for the hint about using the corner rounder ! I use dividers but …the corners can get bent ! I also loved your hint about cutting DSP into 6×6 size to file( a while ago .) I did that with some WW CS too !
Love your tips ! BTW…I have plans to go to Wally World this week to get a new Keurig Coffee Pot ! Or maybe TARGET ! Another fun place !!
Thank you Susan… I love your tips… like someone else’s comment.. we always refer to Walmart as Wally World… and no matter what time of day we go it is always crowded and crazy… so I do limit my trips there.. but will definitely scope out these cubes…
I love these cubes! I have a bunch but they are all ugly black! I might have to splurge on fun colors when I get back from California!
Our “Communist Store” as Mike calls it isn’t so busy or crazy so it isn’t so bad. This season we have navy blue, icky pale teal and pink I think. I wanted some red ones. I have a bunch of black ones from last fall and a few light purple colored. Can’t beat the price! I forgot to make the dividers on my old sheets I cut up. Which I still might do. I have a cube for retired XMAS designs and it was wonderful to take the cube downstairs when I was making the charity cards – as I had the paper right there to riffle through. They are also handy when I want to throw the ink pads, punches as well as stamp sets in to take downstairs to work on some more cards. I store my stamp sets on the shelves in them too. Like all my gazillion Christmas and winter themed sets are stacked up behind the thank you, flower etc. sets. I can just grab the cubes and pull them down and look through them when doing the charity cards now. It would be fabulous to have them color coded like red or green for Christmas, orange for Halloween, flower sets could be yellow etc. But, I am getting ahead of myself – I need to still sort some real old sets and get all the papers organized! But, I am working on it. I guess I could get some yellow vinyl folders to cut up and even use the corner rounder on the edges just so my cube of retired papers looks like Susan’s! Sounds much better than doing housework if you ask me! At least this is one thing to say for a small town – less crowds at Walmart. Gee, maybe I could spray paint them?!? I have a new can of red Krylon paint and said you could paint plastic chairs. Ohhhh, I had better go out and grab a box out of the recycling to try on one cube! Sounds even better than organization and housework!
I guess there are no secrets when it comes to my feelings about Walmart! LOL I avoid going there at all costs! As a teacher who loves a great price, I negotiate with my husband to go for me! My limit is once a year (for a good cause at Christmas). Thanks Susan! I can’t wait to see what color your got me! 🙂
Jeanie, you are a riot! So, what color did she get you?
As soon as I saw the title of your post I was all, “Nooooooooooo! You can’t make me!” LOL! You know, Susan, I’m only 90 miles away from the border of Mexico and lemme tell you about those Mexican peeps. They LOVE Walmart. They also love family. So when they visit Walmart it is Mom and Dad and the kids and the kid’s kids and the aunts and the uncles and their kids and the grandparents and the cousins and the hangers-on so one family is a whole herd of people and you can’t get thru or around. Sigh. I really need one of those cubes though.
Oh I remember that from when we lived in Houston. What is even funnier, I have friends who are Hispanic and they hate going to Walmart for the same reason! They both get their husbands to go for them or try any other place. The food smells get to me esp. Target –
between nachos, hot dogs and that kettle corn stuff, yuk!
Unfortunately, there is not a lot of places here otherwise. Mike likes to get stuff from Amazon and his stuff always is here like the next day or two. He will sometimes remember to order what I want and then it doesn’t come for a week even though he swears it should come 1-2 days. Whatever. Anyway, we don’t have Target or K-Mart nor a Dollar Tree. We do have Dollar General but it costs more and the college kids hit it pretty hard! Maybe you could place an order and then get a taxi or uber driver to pick it up and bring it to you?
Loved your post. What are your dimensions of the chipboard and yellow vinyl. 6.5″ tall or should just .25″ suffice for easy label viewing?
This is an important question.
Great hint. Thanks so much for the reminder!
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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this post! An organizer after my own heart. As for me, I love Walmart and yes, I will be going on a run for these. THANK YOU!
The best time to go to Walmart is 7:00 a.m. Seriously, it’s not bad in there at that hour!