Organizing Mission Monday Link Party – Week 25

Card Cubby – New Colors & Giveaway! (closed)

One more day before my dining room reveal!  I’m excited to show you.  But I’m going to be even more excited to show you my blog makeover. You might be seeing that REALLY soon too!!

Most of you know I love the Card Cubby. Enough that I began selling it in my store.  I’m not one to sell a lot of things (although I do want to start doing eBay or something to sell some items we don’t need anymore as compared to donating absolutely everything like I usually do). I only sell the Card Cubby and pouchee purse organizer at this point because I have to really LOVE something in order to associate my name with it.

You can see a review of the Card Cubby here. But it is an index file for all those gift cards, store discount cards, library cards that you end up with.  You can look under the letter “K” and actually find your Kohl’s Cash or under “S” for that Subway card that you accumulate points on when you buy something at Subway.  I used to just have them all together and I would have to shuffle through the pile to find what I wanted.

I just got a couple new colors for the Card Cubby that I wanted to share.  These are also awesome ways to give a gift card to a new grad, someone having a birthday or someone getting married.  People get so many gift cards now a days for gifts. Wouldn’t they love to have this to organize them?

The Tooled Leatherette Card Cubby

 

The Silver Grey Croc Card Cubby

I also restocked my black Croc and Red Croc Card Cubby’s!   You can find them in my Organize with Sandy Store.

Zebra Card Cubby

You can win this Zebra Card Cubby…. keep reading.

Featured Bloggers

 

Susan from Home Road thinks outside the box! Love it!

She took this trivet, pot holder, carrier (not sure what the official name is) and created this!  I mean really… who thinks of that?  I love seeing organizing products created from items that aren’t intended for organizing.

You can see how she created this and some other great shots of it on her blog, Home Road – Funky Desk Top Organizer

Look what Amy from Gabriel’s Good Tidings made? Isn’t it cute?

The clothes pins are really cute too. Here is a better shot of those.

You can see the rest of her tutorial on her blog  Gabriel’s Good Tidings !

Be sure to stop by and say hi to my featured bloggers!

Card Cubby Giveaway!! (Closed)

I am going to give away a Zebra Card Cubby!  (like one in picture above)

***I am also giving a 10% discount from today until June 30th, 2011.  If you use the code “Summer 11″ it will take off the 10%. This is good on the Card Cubby and pouchee purse organizer!

Required For Entry: Leave a comment below telling me how you would best like to use the Card Cubby if you won.  **Be sure to come back here and leave me your answer in your comment. Your e-mail has to either in your comment or on your profile.

FOR EXTRA CHANCES TO WIN:

**Each of these HAS to have a separate comment to win. The winner is picked using Random.org. It just goes the number of comments….not by what you say.

1) Leave a link in the link party for one of your blog posts.  (1 entry)  You can leave more than one link in the link party, but only one of them counts towards an entry.  You HAVE to include a comment if you want your link to count as an entry for the giveaway.

2) Subscribe to my Organize with Sandy blog (1 entry)

3) Follow me on Twitter @OrganizerSandy (Leave me your twitter name) 1 entry

4) Stumble one of my posts for 5 extra chances to win. (tell me which post – please don’t stumble this post, as giveaway posts aren’t so great to stumble.)  5 entries – be sure to leave 5 comments below for this one.

5) Tweet this out up to 3 times a day. You can use the tweet button at the top to make it easy. ( Pls leave your url link) 1 chance for each tweet.

Please keep in mind I approve my comments. So you won’t see them right away. Never fear!

This contest will run until 11:59pm est on Sunday, June 19, 2011 *Closed*

Any comment that comes in after the above time will be deleted. This is open to US mailing addresses only. Must be 18+ to win. One person per mailing address only. Winner will be chosen by Random.org

You will have 48 hours to reply to my e-mail if you are picked as the winner, or else I will go on to the next winning number.

 

Link up to my Link Party

I would love to see what you are working on this week. But as always you can link up any organizing or cleaning or DIY post to my link party.

You can find the link for my button and also my “Proud to Be Featured Button” on my sidebar Rules 1) Link to your specific post – not your blog
2) Please Link back to my blog with my button or link (link just above underneath my button)
3) I’d love if you’d follow me on google and/or FB. The google is new and I’m trying to build it
4) Blog post related to Organizing or Cleaning or DIY or decorating
5) No sales pitches or web sites.
6) If I feature you I will use one or more of your pictures with a link back to your blog.
7) Feel free to link up more than 1 post.

Looking for other link parties? I have a whole list of them. Thumbnail via day above and keep scrolling down to find a more extensive text lists by day on my link party list.

If you aren’t sure how to link up… see my link party tutorial here. It is simple.

If You Are On A Reader and Want to View All the Great Link Up’s Please Click Here.

This link party will be open until 11:59 on Sunday June 19, 2011.  Feel free to leave more than one post. (But only one counts as an extra entry for the giveaway)

Purse Organizing – The pouchee (Part 2)

Having A Purse Organizer Can Make It Much Easier To Keep Your Purse Organized

I found the pouchee purse organizer several years ago and liked it so much that I began selling it myself.  There are many purse organizers out there.  I have seen and tried a few other ones.  The problems I have had with those are that they are either too big, bulky and expensive or that they don’t have any handles and they are just pockets that line the inside of your purse. Those tend to fall down and get pushed to the bottom of the purse.

The pouchee has two ring handles. They fold down to stay out of the way.

The handles make it really easy to grab the pouchee and either carry it by itself into a store so that you don’t have to carry your heavy purse on your shoulder or to lift it out of your purse and switch it from purse to purse when you change your outfits.  I don’t do that myself, but I know many of you do switch your handbags often to match what you are wearing.

There are several features to the pouchee that help you to organize your things.

There is a divider down the center.  I keep my checkbooks on either side of the liner. I can fit all 3 of my checkbooks into the pouchee.

There is a zipper pocket for change or personal items.

On the other side is another pouch that you can put your money, pictures or papers.

The front has slots for discount cards, business cards etc. You can put a pen where I have it, or a pair of thin glasses fit nicely there too.

The other side of the pouchee has two pockets. Cell phones (Droid X and iphone do fit) There is also a pen slot on this side of it.

You don’t have to have a big purse to use the pouchee.  It works for smaller purses too.  Of course not the really small purses, but compare it to the size of the checkbooks that fit in the pouchee.

It is an awesome way to transfer your essentials if you don’t want to carry a purse and a diaper bag or purse and gym bag. Just pull out your pouchee and put it in your diaper bag or gym bag and you are ready to go.

Again, I don’t make the pouchee, I didn’t invent the pouchee… but I do sell the pouchee it because I love it!

**For my readers I have a special going on only through March 31, 2011. You to my pouchee store. If you add the code “ORGANIZED PURSE” you will receive a 10% discount. Keep in mind that I already have my pouchees priced lower than most other sources. This code will also work for the Card Cubby

Here are a couple other reviews of the pouchee that you can see.

Toni from A Bowl Full of Lemons
Monica from Your Life Organized

Be sure to watch for the rest of my posts this week:- (Part 1)

Purse Organizing – Part 1
Purse Organizing – Card Cubby (Part 3)
Purse Organizing – All those purses (Part 4)

How is your purse organizing coming?
I want to see your purse organizing! If you link up your purse post to my linky party and it is of your purse organizing, I’ll pull a picture and add a link to the part 1 Purse Organizing post too!

I’d love for you to link it up to my Organizing Mission Monday Link Party
It will be open until March 27th to link to.

I LOVE your comments!

Card Cubby

Congrats!

Winner #1  Random.org # 127 is Cheryl G.

Winner #2 Random.org #106 is Busiemommie

A Rolodex for Your Purse

I love an organized purse and this Card Cubby makes organizing all those gift cards, reward cards, library cards, etc… easy to find.  I know that I had a pile of them in my purse before…and what do you do each time you need one? Yes….you sort through them until you find the one you need. No more!!

The other thing I think is great…what a cool gift for Graduation or a Wedding?  What does everyone give now? Gift cards right? Wouldn’t it be neat to put your gift card in this to give to them?

The Card Cubby has  alphabetized dividers. So you Target gift card goes under “T”. Your Subway rewards card goes under “S”.  Easy to find!!

I have been using one for over a year before I decided to sell them myself.  It has held up great, it has a strong magnet on the front. It is easy to clean if needed and the dividers are a sturdy and haven’t gotten bent up or destroyed.

Here is a video to show you how the Card Cubby works

In Celebration of carrying them in my “store” I am going to give away 2 of them to you!

To Purchase Your Own:

Go to my Store and order.  They cost $19.95 each.

To Win:

Go to Organizewithsandy.com/pouchee and tell me which color Card Cubby you would like if you win. **Be sure to come back here and leave me a comment.  Your e-mail needs to be either on your comment or easily accessible in your profile.

For Extra chances to Win:

**Each of these HAS to have a separate comment written please. (I know its a pain, but other wise you won’t have as many chances if you don’t)

You can find all the links in my right hand sidebar.

1) Subscribe to my Organizing with Sandy blog – 5 chances to win (be sure to leave 5 comments)

2) Subscribe to my NEW Blog Chat with Sandy for 5 chances.

3) Follow me on Twitter

4) Follow me on Linked In

5) Tweet out this giveaway up to 3 times per day. Write a comment for each time you do with the link.

6) Add any of my 3 buttons (Organize with Sandy, Reviews, Chat with Sandy) to your sidebar and come back to let me know. Separate

entry for each one you add.

See….lots of ways to enter to win!

This contest will run until 11:59pm est on  June 3rd, 2010 . THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED

Any comment that comes in after the above time will be deleted.

This is open to US mailing addresses only. One person per mailing address only. Winner will be chosen by Random.org

You will have 48 hours to reply to my e-mail if you win to be eligible. If I don’t hear back then I will go to the next winner.

Disclosure Policy

Butler Bag Review

Professional Organizers love the Butler Bag.

Why do Professional Organizers love the Butler Bag?  Well…I wanted to find out.  I had heard of them, I saw all the organizers in one of my NAPO local chapter meetings going ga-ga over one that someone had.  But I really didn’t have a desire to try one.  I think the biggest reason was because I sold the pouchee purse organizer, and I didn’t think I could use the pouchee and the Butler Bag together.

So when they called me from Butler bag and asked if I wanted to review one, I said …Sure. I told her that I sold the pouchees and I was curious to see if it would work.

Here is why the Butler Bag is different and special:

There is an organized section in the bottom of the purse.  It is removeable.  I had heard that the purse was very heavy. I don’t know if that was a “first edition” model or what, but this insert is not heavy at all.  The purse is a bigger purse that I picked out  The Day Croc  and it isn’t any heavier than any other purse its size.

I would have liked there to have been a zipper pocket on the inside of the purse, so I did miss that.  There are two size pockets on the outside ends. I like that.

Here is the finished and full purse:

But guess what?  My pouchee worked! It is the light pink organizer with my checkbook and keys in it.  I had thought it would sit on top of everything, but it slide right down on the side of the organizer section. I fit my Card Cubby (dark thing to the right of the sunglasses) also fit down in there perfectly!!  Beside the pouchee is my little cosmetic bag that I keep all my little nick nacks in. It fit great.  I fit my camera, flip camera, multitool, gum, lipstick, stain remover stick and coupon organizer (slim black wallet looking thing that is behind the cameras at the back of the pic)

So my thoughts…I like it!  It’s not too heavy….I can fit my pouchee and card cubby and my other items.  It works.  The only thing is that I didn’t pick out a summer color. I picked out a dark brown. I would love to have a lighter fun color.  I think the only negative I could say would be that I would have liked to see a better color selection.

To Purchase Your Own:

Go to Butler Bag.com  and purchase one. Butler Bag is so wonderful that they extended a discount  code to my readers!!  You can Buy 1 bag at full price and get your second bag at 50% off. (Great gift idea!!….one for you…one for them!)

To Win: A Butler Bag (Same or less than value of the Day Croc)

Go to Butler Bag.com  and tell me which bag you like the best.

**Be sure to come back here and leave me a comment.  Your e-mail needs to be either on your comment or easily accessible in your profile.

For Extra chances to Win:

**Each of these HAS to have a separate comment written please. (I know its a pain, but other wise you won’t have as many chances if you don’t)

You can find all the links in my right hand sidebar.

1) Subscribe to my Organize with Sandy Blog – for 5 extra chances to win.  *Be sure to leave a comment for each time!

2) Subscribe to Chat with Sandy – for 5 extra chances to win.

3) Follow me on Twitter – @OrganizerSandy

4) Follow me on Linked In

5) Tweet out this giveaway up to 3 times per day. Write a comment for each time you do with the link.

6) Add any of my 3 buttons (Organize with Sandy, Reviews, Chat with Sandy) to your sidebar and come back to let me know. Separate entry for each one you add.

See….lots of ways to enter to win!

This contest will run until 11:59pm est on  May 4, 2010 . *THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED*

Any comment that comes in after the above time will be deleted.

This is open to US mailing addresses only. One person per mailing address only. Winner will be chosen by Random.org

You will have 48 hours to reply to my e-mail if you win to be eligible. If I don’t hear back then I will go to the next winner.

Disclosure Policy – I did receive this Butler Bag free of charge. All the comments and opinions are my own.