52 Weeks of Organizing – Pens and Pencils are Procreating

I don’t know about you, but my house is overrun with pens, pencisl, markers and crayons.  Yet there never seems to be a sharpened pencil to be found when homework time begins.

So this morning I got out ALL of my writing utensils.  I kept finding more and more, even after I took this picture I found more.

• I organized them into like piles.
• I got rid of pens and markers that didn’t work.
• I put Thing 1 to work sharpening all of the pencils.

I ended up with these piles:

• I then put some in the bags into our art drawer.
• Then I separated an equal amounts of pens, pencils and highlighters into 3 containers which I put in good locations around the house.

Only after when I was in the office to pay bills did I realize I hadn’t included those writing items.  However I only have a few in there and never seem to have pens.  So I relocated a good chunk of pens into there!

I also designated a container for pencils needing to be sharpened, instead of putting them back into the other baskets, they have there own place!

Hopefully their procreation will slow, or at least be more orderly.  😉