Until we were homeowners, we only had a file-folder full of manuals/warranties that was kept in our filing cabinet. When we bought our house, I quickly discovered that the file folder wasn’t going to cut it anymore.
Suddenly, we OWNED all of our appliances. There was no more calling the office when something broke…now there was “get out the manual and see if you can figure it out…and if not, you’d better be able to get your hands on that warranty!”
One reason why I am SO big on being able to find all of this stuff easily is that I’ve had to replace all kinds of things via warranty – but mainly car parts. (Tires, etc.) When you can’t find what you need, you have to pay full prices…and I’m not a fan of paying full price at all!
So, right now, we have a 3-drawer filing cabinet in our office. The top drawer is my hubby’s (I need to take a pic of it and post it sometime…it’s a straight up mess, but he can find anything he has in there within 5 seconds, it’s amazing!), the middle drawer is household stuff, and the bottom drawer is mine. I really didn’t want to fill up the cabinet with MORE files of manuals and warranties (I detest a crammed filing cabinet), but some of these things are pretty thick! And not all of them can be punched into a 3-ring notebook! What was I to do?
I’ve seen lots of templates for “Household Binders”. Have you seen those? Here are a few that are pretty cool:
Aprons ‘n Pearls Household Binder
A Simple Life Household Binder
iHeart Organizing Household Management Binder
You get the idea?
However, I didn’t really want to cram all of that into one notebook. (I dislike a crammed notebook almost as much as a crammed filing cabinet!) And I had already created my own Recipe Notebook/Binder (CLICK HERE for details on that!)…so the more I thought about it, the more I decided that I probably was going to need multiple notebooks. And the Warranty & Manual Binder was born!
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