You’re in the middle of whipping up a fabulous dish for dinner when the recipe calls for an unusual oil—one you keep at the very back of your kitchen cabinet. It is time to choose between skipping that ingredient for a sub-par flavored meal or removing every bottle in the way to get to the oil of choice. What if you didn’t have to choose? With a turntable in your cabinet, you’ll be able to reach anything at the back with one smooth turn. Turntables are also fantastic at showing you everything you have in stock so that you can avoid purchasing the same item multiple times. They work well in laundry rooms, high cabinets, and refrigerators.
You can find turntables at Storables, The Container Store, Bed, Bath, & Beyond, and Target.
Visor Tissue Holders
There is rarely a good time to sneeze while your driving. The situation is only more inconvenient if you have to go rummaging for the tissue box, or worse, you don’t have any tissues! Keep your eyes on the road and take care of that runny nose with a tissue holder that clips into the visor of your car. The holder stays well out of your view and is easy to refill with tissues from rectangular boxes. I recommend searching Amazon.com or Ebay for Tempo tissue holders. Ebay also sells tissue holders by Grillwork with plaid and newspaper patterns, though I have never tested the quality of their products.
Mesh Bags
You know that somewhere in the deep realms of your purse or laptop bag, there is a pen that works. Yet, every time you need to use one it requires a full excavation of the contents of your bag before you can find it.
Save yourself time and effort with mesh bags, which prevent small items from falling into the depths of your purse or laptop bag. They are more durable than zipper-sealed plastic bags and offer enough visibility that no labeling is required to easily identify the contents.
You can find mesh bags at The Container Store in sizes conducive to carrying pencils, keys, makeup products, and full-size notepads.
Tickler File
You have a sheet of paper in front of you that you don’t want to put into your Action File because you don’t need it until exactly three weeks from today. Where can you put it so that it will be available on the exact day that you need it?
Try using a tickler file system! This system has a pocket for every day of the month. This system is also useful for those who prefer paper copies of to-do lists. You can write each task on a note card and stick the note card into the pocket of the day that you will have time to address that task.
Simple and efficient, the tickler file is available at: http://www.theticklerfile.com/
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