TBH, my friends and family will tell you that I am a bit of a Monica. Don't leave your drink alone for too long or I'll clear it up type thing or tea towels having to be perfectly folded etc! I never post here though, for fear my obsession with clean and tidy might get worse! I'll spot top tips I haven't considered and get sucked in!
Anyway, DH has just presented me with a Dymo label kit! Is the mother of all kits too! It's in a big padded box with all sorts of stuff in it! So dare I? Dare I start with labelling the Tupperware boxes in the dry food cupboard? Well, to be honest, relabelling. At the moment they have labels on them made of the fronts of the packets that the food stuffs came out of! 
What else can I label? DD is 21, so no need for child friendly labels. I could label the recycling bag with, 'this is where the fucking recycling goes, not on the side in the kitchen for me to sort!'
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MaureenMLove · 13/06/2016 16:32
I haven't got an airing cupboard. 
. I'm very jealous, that's a great idea!
What sort of 'jars of things' do you have?
(I know I shouldn't encourage you really but I have serried ranks of glass jars with not a label between them. 
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Shut up!!
. Gbean!! How the bloody hell are you??? . Does Kbear know you're here?
I've just had a proper look in the box. It's got different coloured ink. I have my first label, in bright yellow. 'This is not where the recycling goes!'
Next the empty toilet roll issue!
Ya see! This is why I should stay away from this topic! These are brilliant ideas. My family will hate me by about 8pm tonight!
Hush now, Spotted. The OP might not have dividy things in folders - yet. You don't need to send her off to a stationery store to buy them!
Many moons ago my then boyfriend's parents gave him their label maker and told him to label his trombone as he kept leaving it on the school bus.
He attached his label and showed his mum. It said 'Trombone'.
He looked genuinely perplexed when his mum gently suggested that she meant he should label it with his name and address.
So, I have very pretty flour jars, but one contains plain and one self raising. I put a mark on the back one. NOW I have big typed labels on them! Marvellous!
I've made DDs best friend jealous. She wanted one for her birthday. She's on her way, for a borrow!
Spices are all in their own jars, in the spice cupboard. Birthday cards, paper and assorted celebration things in the party cupboard and plugs are allocated to each person. I have mine and they have theirs. We do not share sockets!
I'm too organised for this. . This will have to be a work in progress. I'm going for the subtle instructions to family labels at the moment!
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Thank Goodness for the rain! You'll need all of that 6 weeks to develop your schema for 'stuff in the shed/stuff under the sink' etc. And that's after reading all labels (on the back of bottle and canisters etc) most carefully.
The need for clear and concise eg hazard labels is quite obvious, I think?
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