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I bought a Sterilite-brand portable box made for organizing hanging folders and I keep all of my owner's manuals and registration information in labeled folders. It saves me a ton of time when I'm looking for the instruction manual to something or God forbid, I need information on a product's warranty.
In fact...my husband bought me a Euro-Pro sewing machine for Christmas in 2006...from the moment I opened it, it was a dud! It would sew but the thread would bunch up and then tear...it was a disaster. I put it away & thought maybe I was just ill-prepared to own a sewing machine. Well, come Easter I wanted to make something for my son...so, my mom came down & she tried to sew on it--she had just as many problems! Again, I put it away. Months later I thought, this thing cost $ 200 and it's going to waste...so, I pulled out the owner's manual, I pulled out the original sale receipt from Amazon.com and would you believe that almost a year after purchasing it, they gave me a 100% refund!!!! I was so happy to have had everything organized in one place--I got the $ 200 refund and bought an adorable pink, Brother sewing machine at Kmart for only $ 120.00!!
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I do the same thing and have for years, but it's all in hanging folders in one of our filing cabinets. My biggest problem is sometimes I go thru it and find papers for items I don't even have anymore. Things I sold at a yardsale years ago.
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Originally Posted by Denvergirlie
I do the same thing and have for years, but it's all in hanging folders in one of our filing cabinets. My biggest problem is sometimes I go thru it and find papers for items I don't even have anymore. Things I sold at a yardsale years ago.
I do the same, I recently went through them and was able to throw out about half for things I didn't own anymore.
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My mom has a really good system. She has two 1 to 1 1/2 inch binders with sheet protectors. One labeled "Inside the house" the other labeled "Outside the house". In each binder goes the manual, paperwork and the original receipt (plus a copy if it's thermal paper).
She's always taking advantage of warranties etc. In the past month alone she's had her cutco knives sharpened for the cost of postage, their microwave repaired, and their bose stereo system repaired. She's had the knives for over 20 years. The microwave and stereo for 5 years. Now I call that organized.
One tip...if you can find the old style binder with the rings on the end rather than the "D" ring the sheet protectors fit better.
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Me & DH husband do the same thing. We have a 2 drawer file cabinet that has about 2 or 3 hanging file folders full of our manuals. In fact this reminds me that we need to go through it & weed out the ones we no longer have. We also have files for our paycheck stubs & work information, bills, kids info, etc. Even though I have these files my desk is still a mess!! It's never ending.