How to Organize Product Manuals and Warranties

It's the new year - time to organize! 

I'd like to share a QUICK organizing tip that will take 10 minutes of your time 

but will SAVE hours, headaches, and clutter down the road. 

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Instruction manuals, directions, and warranty sheets take up a bulk of my paper pile. What’s worse is that moment when something breaks or worse.

Once I figured out this organizing trick, I saved lots of time and aggravation by having every single manual at my fingertips in seconds.

Start with an expandable file folder. This one cost $3 at Family Dollar.

Label each section for a category. I love my label maker because it’s easy to use and the labels look professional, but handwriting the labels works just fine.

Adapt your categories as needed – for example, you could organize the manuals by the room where the item resides such as kitchen, living room, etc.  Or alphabetically. Whatever works for you. Then, simply add the labels to the file folder and now all your loose instruction manuals and warranty information has a nice new home!

Shared TIPS:

If you sell your house.. you can leave the info for the items that stay with the house for the new owner.... I have always appreciated that when the seller did that... I put everything in a three-ring binder and gave it to the new homeowner.  BUT when I get a new appliance etc. I take the manual, write the date we bought it, where we bought it, how we paid for it, the item serial number, model numbers etc. on the front jacket of the manual. IF the items goes haywire and I have to call for parts etc. I don't have to search for the information that is normally requested. If the booklet is small, I put them into sheet protectors.

I was trying to get rid of so much paper clutter in my house and thought of the idea of scanning all of the important stuff like appliance warranties and receipts and saving them to a flash drive in case the documents were lost. When you need the document, simply plug it in to any computer and run off a copy. My printer has a scanner built in and I put it to good use with this.