How to Be a Sticky Note Queen

They call to you from the stationery aisle. They're so bright, like a rainbow of paper. Go ahead and buy as many as you want, because sticky notes are the new paper clip for organized people. With the variety of colors and sizes, a number of ho-hum daily chores can become more colorful when a sticky note is attached. Soon, you'll be crowned a sticky note queen.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Lots of sticky notes in assorted colors and sizes.

1. Keep a supply of sticky notes everywhere. A variety on your desktop, of course, will come in handy all the time, but also keep some inside your purse or wallet, on the kitchen counter, in cubby holes and drawers around the house, the glove box, by the phone and, yes, even in the bathroom. You never know when a list or idea will pop into your head and you don't want to spend time searching for a sticky note.
2. Use a larger-sized sticky note to make your daily to-do list. Place it on your computer monitor screen where you will be reminded all day of tasks needing completion.
3. Post a sticky note on the refrigerator. As you run out of something, add it to your running grocery list. When it's time to head to the store, grab the sticky list off the fridge and you're good to go. At the store, attach the note to the handle of the grocery cart for convenience.
4. Mark your place in the books you read with a sticky note. Make annotations if you come up with an idea while reading or mark the spot where a particularly juicy part is located in case you want to read it again.
5. Hang some giant sticky notes on the wall. Use them as a bulletin board, message board or doodle board. Even attach lots of little sticky notes to it and make it a sticky note holder.
6. Pick up a copy of the book "Sticky Note Origami" and decorate your house and office with miniature origami designs. Perhaps several cranes, in a variety of colors, can line your mantle and, in a sticky note emergency, you can disassemble one of your masterpieces.
7. Write notes to family and friends on sticky notes and attach them to locations where they will be found. A reminder to your spouse to put the toilet seat down can be placed on the wall behind the toilet. The note for your teenage daughter to take out the garbage can be placed on her forehead as she sleeps; she'll see it in the mirror when she brushes her teeth.
8. Use stickies to organize your home office. Stick notes to each bill that needs to be paid, with the due date written on it. Attach some sticky notes to the calendar to keep track of appointments and activities, with a different color for each member of your household. You can take phone messages using different colors, too, and stick them on the wall next to the phone.

Tips & Warnings

• Although Post-Its are the name brand most recognized, save money by buying less expensive knock-offs since you'll be using so many.
• Computerized sticky notes are becoming more common. Investigate purchasing software that allows you to put digital stickies on your desktop.

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