Getting Organized As a Brother P-Touch Ambassador!

I wrote this review while participating in a campaign by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Brother P-Touch and received a product sample to facilitate my review as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation.

When I was a kid, I had some very unique interests. I saved my allowance for things that any other kid would groan if they received as a Christmas gift- things like a rock tumbler, a calendar with journal writing prompts for each day, and one of my favorites- a label maker.

I was always such a slob as a kid {just ask my Mom} but for some reason I have always loved labeling. I’m not sure if it’s the sense of everything having a place or what but being able to label a box of objects so that I don’t have to dig & search for it later is almost therapeutic to me. So you can imagine my excitement at being a Brother P-Touch Labeler Ambassador!

I was already familiar with P-Touch labelers from my old desk job, but the one that I received from Brother & Mom Central is about a whole decade newer than the one I was used to, so it has a lot of fun features that the old one didn’t have. With this one, I can change my font style and size, include characters & even add cute little pictures! I’ve been having a lot of fun playing around with the labeler & I can’t wait to show you some of my projects in a couple of weeks.

As a sneak peek, I have to show you the importance of having labels. Remember the above “medicine cabinet” {really, a shelf in my utility closet} that I featured last summer in Storage Ideas & Inspiration post? I was in love with this cabinet because it had previously been a wreck, but had been recently organized into categorized boxes. This is what it looked like last week:

The problem? I never labeled the boxes. At the time, I didn’t have my labeler & I just never took the time to make my own labels. So whenever I’d go to put something back, I couldn’t remember which one was the right box & I would just put it to the side or in front. Obviously, that hasn’t been working very well, so last weekend I took my trusty P-Touch & tackled that big mess! I’m only halfway done, so I’ll show you the “After” in just a couple of weeks, but I promise it doesn’t look like that anymore!

Now that we are about to undertake the giant job of converting our home office into a nursery {eventually- this is not a pregnancy announcement just yet!} I’m trying to clean & organize to make room for everything that is getting displaced. That means I have a lot more to label!

To keep me motivated around here, I’ve been keeping up with the Brother P-Touch Facebook Tab & answering the great questions they’ve been asking. They’ve really gotten me thinking about what’s holding me back from organizing- and why I want to organize in the first place. I really feel like organizing is a lot easier when you know why you’re doing it- other than just that you “should”.

So what projects do you need to complete? Anything you’ve been meaning to organize? Be sure to come back in a few weeks & check out my progress!