The Clean House Calendar

It's Back to School time!  Time to buy all those new school supplies.  Do you buy extras to have some at home for homework or to give your kid's teacher for the students who couldn't afford supplies?  Do you have all used supplies that came home at the end of the school year or were left over from previous school projects or you needed for scouts or class parties or Sunday School?  I did.  I do. So several years ago I set up a system to corral all of the extra school stuff and craft supplies we had lying around. All of the lower cabinets in my kitchen (except for under the sink) are drawers.  I planned it that way when we built our house, and I love it.  So when setting this system up, I decided to dedicate one of these drawers to house all the stuff.  Then I sorted all the stuff into categories, counted my categories, and headed to Wal-Mart to buy a bunch of pencil boxes. This system has worked marvelously over the years and continues to.  In fact, my college-aged daughter