I don't know if anyone has the same trouble I do. I am so mathematically and spatially challenged. I decided to tidy up my craft room a bit and thought it might be nice if I get all of the stamps in their boxes. I gave the little puzzles to my hubby and then took pictures that I then taped to the inside of the case. I could never use a stamp or two and then put it right back.
I just thought I would trow this out there. I have had my "you make me happy" stamp sitting on a shelf by itself for quite some time. I could barely get 7 stamps back in that box, let alone 8. Am I alone in this?? :>)
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Registered: September 12, 2007 Location: Wake Forest, NC Posts: 61357
Tue, Jan 06, 2015 @ 5:46 PM
No, you're definitely not alone. Although I don't have the same issue you have, I certainly have compensated for my lack of not being able to read a map or do math. There you have it. I haven't done what you've done here, but I do stamp images onto copy paper according to manufacturer. Before I start making cards (again), the first thing I pull out is my binder of all my images. We do what we need to do to keep things in order, right? Good for you to figure this out. I think it's a great idea.
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Registered: March 31, 2008 Location: Eastlake, OH Posts: 22598
Tue, Jan 06, 2015 @ 7:25 PM
What a great idea Kim. I was doing the same thing for so long, not putting the stamp away then couldn't remember what goes with what set. In the end I just broke up the sets. This is brilliant and probably a lot quicker than stamping all those images.
Thanks for sharing this idea. Just a couple of days ago I had this problem with 2 different sets. I tried for a long time but couldn't get either set into the box. Then I asked my husband, who is a retired math teacher and who also likes to do puzzles, and it probably took him 30 minutes or so to get them figured out.
Registered: August 24, 2005 Location: The Boonies of California Posts: 11055
Wed, Jan 07, 2015 @ 10:31 AM
My hubby devised a system for me when I started accumulating a lot of stamps. (he was retired, I wasn't) He stamped all my images and put them in a catalog, numbering them with the box or drawers they were in, put the number on the box or drawer, AND also put the number on the side of the wooden block. Now if I have a lone stamp on my desk, I look at the number on the side and put it back where it belongs. I unmounted most of my SU stamps now so now I write the number on the face of the stamp itself, put them in the cassette or DVD case then scan the face of it and put it into the catalog. Easier than stamping them. I try to keep up with it and catalog them as soon as I get them but don't always so then I have to spend a day doing it.
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Registered: June 9, 2006 Location: Wauconda, IL Posts: 55667
Wed, Jan 07, 2015 @ 2:57 PM
Thanks for sharing Becki!! I have to figure something out for my ribbon too. Right now I have lots of rolls on the floor. I don't like the idea of putting them on a doll rod, because I always take the ribbon to my project.
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Thu, Jan 08, 2015 @ 8:24 AM
I have the same trouble...I am not good at tetris as my nephew calls it. He laughs at me all the time. I have a Thank You stamp that has been out of the box for 7 years bcause I can't remember which box it belongs. I have scanned so many SU catalogs that I swear I have them memorized and still can't seem to find the set so it gets used all time because it just sits out. LOL! Great idea to take a picture for putting the stamps back in the right stamp boxes and how they fit. Thank you for the GREAT idea. Now I will need to find the time to do that with a few of mine. Becki, that is also a fantastic idea to number the stamps!!! Kim, I am with you on the ribbon too. I have mine sitting on a table and they fall off all the time. I had seen on Pintrist a closet organizer that goes on the inside of a closet door that holds them but I am not sure it would hold all the rolls that some of us have in our stash. I would love to know what others do with their ribbons.