organize me monday #9

For today's little organization project, I'm going to share how I re-organized my discs of pictures.

I like to use cds to back up my photos. I organize my pictures by date on my computer & before I erase photos from the camera cards, I burn them onto a disc.

A couple years ago I bought a couple cd storage boxes from Ikea. 

I think they were around $6 for the pack of 2......

I have had the pair at our computer desk to hold all the discs of our photos & other discs of computer stuff. 

I like hiding all that stuff away.

I used to have the cds in jewel cases & I used to make up labels on the computer for each disc of pictures. 

But I started slacking & stopped using jewel cases. And then eventually it was looking like this......

My solution??

I had these stick on tabs that I found at the grocery store for a couple bucks & I cut down some sheets of green cardstock to the size of the cd envelope sleeves.

And I made up some dividers for all the discs.

Then I labeled each tab with a extra-fine-tipped sharpie.

I bought a pack of cd sleeves from Walmart & used those for all the loose discs, as well as the ones that used to be in the jewel cases.

I loved filing away all my discs by year & I also made some tabs for: computer discs, games, and  camera discs.

I eliminated lots of bulk, by just using the cd sleeves intead of jewel cases. I was able to fit everything from 2 boxes into just 1!

It was such an easy way to get every thing all organized again & I think this was a really simple solution to make every thing really easy to find!

So, how do YOU organize your photos??

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