Welcome to Feature Friday! Each week I will be featuring a guest tipper (mainly my friends and family whose ideas I see and must share). This week is my wonderful sister Amy and her idea for organizing moving day!

We went to help her pack boxes and she had an ingenious color coding system. There were different colored sticky notes for each room. We would write the room at the top of the sticky note and then draw a line under which we would write the contents of the box.

We taped these notes to the sides of the boxes to be easily visible in stacks.

This way when the boxes arrive at the new house People won’t even have to read the labels they can just take them to the room according to color. This also eliminates having to have someone stand at the door directing where the boxes go so everyone can do the lifting and make it that much faster!

Great idea Amy! You are now entered in to the hall of fame as Tipper of the Week!

Today let’s round up those DVDs. I have had this set up for a while, but I get a lot of comments on it so I thought I would share. It stores all our DVDs and doubles as a display center for all our souvenirs from our travels. I bought these Atlantic brand boxes years ago at Wal-mart for $3 each. I looked all over the internet, but unfortunately could not find them. (that does not mean that you can’t just that in my limited search time I didn’t) Good news is if you have a handy guy they would probably be fairly easy to make.

This is how they look on the wall.

Here’s a close up so you can see the DVD/souvenir set up.

They came in a set of two boxes that hook together like these for $3. We have 8 sets.

You could even line up deep shadow boxes on the wall for an alternative. Or, what about cute shelves with bookends?

Here are some cute affordable shelves:
Ikea DVD shelf $7
More Ikea Shelves-All Price ranges

Anyone else have ideas for DVD storage?

I don’t really like to live inside the box necessarily, but with a 15 month old sometimes that’s what is called for. I used to have this end table all to myself, but with a climber on the loose nothing is safe. Enter my new friend Mr. Tupperware, we’ll call him Mr. T for short. Now I have a body guard for all those “personal” things (No, not those things.) Things like pens, to do lists, camera cords, treats, remotes, basically anything you want to keep from the little one who has claimed everything else. One of those nice looking organizing boxes would be great, there’s only one problem. My guy can get in to those pretty ones. It’s only the airtight muscle using ones that work in this house. So I will deal with the aesthetics for now if it means corralling all my “needs” into one compact baby safe.

See how he just knows when Mr. T is open. He was up there peering in in the 30 seconds it took me to take the two previous pictures.

Lucky for you I made you a pretty one. Yes, the fancy foo one in the drawing is the perfect size for your very own kid corral! (no, your kids will not fit in to it, but your bag of Cadbury eggs will!) Someday soon I will make mine pretty too!