At Make-Do Mondays, we discuss how we’re simplifying, downsizing, repurposing, buying used, and using what we’ve got.It’s a carnival you can visit to celebrate creative problem-solving, contentment, patience and ingenuity. If you want to participate, you can share your own make-do solution in the comments or write up a Make-Do Mondays post at your blog, then return here to link via Mr. Linky.Here’s a mini-tutorial on Mr. Linky:
Click on the icon and a separate page will pop up. Type in your blog name and paste in the url of your new Make-Do Mondays post. Click enter and it should be live. If it doesn’t work, just include the link in the comments.To visit people’s posts, click on Mr. Linky and when the page comes up, click on a name. You should be taken right to the page that they provided. If I have time, I come back and update the post by hand.
Make-Do Mondays Participants
- sunnydaytodaymama (storage in a small space)
- My Practically Perfect Life (Hanging Kitchen Tools on Wall)
- Mother Letter Project (A Villagers Story–How Cooperatives Make Do)
- Ship Full O’ Pirates (Make-Do Planters)
- Runningamuck (Quilts!)
- Like Mother, Like Daughter (Granola Bar Hack)
Make-Do Mondays with AnnI was in a planning meeting on Friday, and I’d forgotten my notebook. So I used an envelope to make notes.
Someone offered me some notebook paper, but I said, “No thanks. I have the other side!”
Melissa (Hi, Melissa!) leaned over and whispered, “I think you should snap a picture of this for Make-Do Mondays.”So I did.
I love using up old scraps of paper to write notes, I don’t like to throw away paper that still has at least one blank side. My grandad always used to write on old envelopes.
Marj’s mother Marilyn writes wonderful Christmas letters, often recalling her girlhood in Scandinavian Wisconsin. Once she told of how her father used up every scrap of paper, and wrote letters to her when she was in college, using the backs of calendars, as he tore off each month. I am, I guess, a paper waster since I have always had plenty around, but every time I tear off a month, I look at that nice plain back and think of Marilyn’s father–and how wise he was!
LOL. I do the same thing! I also hold onto those freebie notepads that real estate agents send in the mail. Not very attractive (gotta love having notepads with pictures of complete strangers on them) but they work great and are free! Although, I have such a stash right now that I’m starting to feel bad for the agents… just how much money did they spend on them that they sure as heck aren’t going to re-coup from me?! =0)
This is similar to an old church-trick I used to employ. I was a teenage guy and journals were not en vogue for said demographic. However, from time to time, a preacher would make a statement that I thought was worthy of jotting down (should I say “down with which was worthy of jotting”?). I would take those little offering envelopes, deconstruct them, write my note, then reconstruct. Once carried home, I would write the thoughts in the journal kept *at home*.
A bit silly, I know, but when you are trying to be “cool” hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Hi Ann!
Well, I would rather write on an envelope than use two pages of a notebook and then forget it! Which is what I usually do with notebooks 🙂
I hope you will enjoy my “hack” which is a word I like that basically means — make-do! And a hack is someone who isn’t necessarily the best at what he does — but the job gets done, doesn’t it! 🙂
Just yesterday, someone wrote her e-mail address for me, on the back of a church pew envelope!
My Hubby is notorious for using envelopes, for important information too! The sad part is, most of the time he has a very hard time finding the one he needs! LOL…..
I used to use envelopes all the time, but now carry a notebook almost everywhere I go. (I think I am loosing my memory and my notebook helps!) I also am trying to get into the habit of using my cell phone’s memo feature and voice recorder. This is helping, but I usually forget and go for the written because that is how I grew up.
I do use envelopes and ad paper and junk mail to help the kids with homework.
Thanks for sharing, using up paper is an awesome ‘go green’ road. I need to take more ‘green’ roads!
Sharinskishe
It’s kind of nice to know that used envelopes are so widely employed! I also should have mentioned (maybe I can elaborate in a later MDMs post) that I load up my coupons into envelopes, each one marked with the broad category. As I get a lot in one category, I can grab another envelope and start filling it. I have one coupon envelope dedicated to Pillsbury products. Man, do they send out a BUNCH!
By the way, I transcribed the notes scribbled on that envelope in the picture into a Word document and sent it off to the ladies at that meeting. So now I can trash the envelope. It served its two-purpose life.
Also, based on these notes, I think churches would save a little money by sticking scrap paper for note-taking right there with the giving envelopes.
Was that your letter of intent…I mean envelope of intent…smile…
grand idea!
I will try to post next Monday…we have so many wonderful wedding ideas that are low-budget and making do…but they still add up to a lot…but it will be worth the outcome and it will be beautiful…
especially all the treasured memories of so many of our friends helping us…truly priceless!
I use envelopes for lists and notes all the time. Perfect for something that is going to used once and thrown away. The junk mail is plentiful and free!
my mother used to buy a box of envelopes just for her daily note making