Organize your Bulletin Board

Do you have a bulletin board near your desk that has been collecting papers and dust for a long, long time? Take some time to reorganize and put it to good use.

• Take everything off the board and put the pins in a bowl. Look over all the papers and decide what is outdated. Rehang what's current, keeping only a few treasured mementos. On a bulletin board, just like anywhere else around your home, if you keep too much, you can't find what's really important.

• Every few months look over the bulletin board and decide what can get tossed and what would be good to post and have accessible.

• If you have children, use a large board, give a section of the board to each child and keep their current school information, invitations and appointments posted.

• No bulletin board? Grab a sheet of homasote board and wrap some fabric around it. Secure the fabric with a staple gun and you have a decorative bulletin board that you can hang anywhere!