Good morning, Barry! I loved the visit with your mom, she is a treasure. I especially enjoyed seeing her “stash” of saved paper and cereal box scraps, put away for future use. Back in the day, my grandmother and my aunts did the same thing, and I am blessed to have inherited some of those precious recipes and notes in their own handwriting on old, odd scraps of paper…I treasure them! Please thank you mom for sharing hers with us! Blessings to you and yours. ☺️ Meline
My mum always does this! She's 86 this year and she still cuts cereal boxes up like your mum and holds them together with a rubber band to use as needed. She has also always re-used tins, jars etc for other things and never wastes anything.
I’m a junk journaller so use food boxes to make notebooks, journals and lapbooks. I save nearly everything made of cardboard as it’s so handy for lots of things, there’s nothing better than a good box 📦 I’d love to see the things your Mum uses and makes ❤
Miss the days of cardboard packaging instead of plastic. My mom wrote on cardboard, index cards, reused mailing envelopes. Saving money for the family.
My mum does this too! Between her and my father, who was a talented artist and taught me about sketchbooks, etc, that's where my interest in stationery came from.
Fabulous and simple, I love what your mum does. I use a bifold wallet and keep a half pencil in the middle. Folded post it notes and also the backs of large white envelopes get cut into wallet sized bits. That's my on the go notes for when I need to leave one. I also carry a A7 notebook for other stuff. Great videos, thanks.
Fantastic, back to the basics. Sometimes when I buy a new journal, I feel guilty for buying it b/c I have so much paper at home. Now with cereal box cutouts, well that just another level. Love the idea and thanks for sharing your mom! Moms are great:)
My grandfather used cereal boxes for dividers in binders, grandma did the same thing for dividers in recipe boxes. What I find interesting is going through some of that stuff now, and finding all that stuff with prices on whatever the cardboard was from, cereal box with a 59 cent price tag for example....geez a box of cereal is $5+ now....
@@wildbill23c totally agree! They kept things simple back then. No perfect pen or paper to get the job done. Something to be said for that. Hence why I live the analog world.
My mom always had notepads around the house and she would write lists on old envelopes. She would have grocery lists and budgets and school clothes lists. How fantastic that your mom uses these bits of paper and cardboard. I have never seen cardboard used this way. I am inspired! I went to the doctor not too long ago with one of my son’s and I took out my little notebook to write something down and my son said, “why don’t you just put it in your phone?” I feel like writing things down makes more of an impression and I’m more likely to look at it again.
Agreed! Whenever something is written down, I believe we have more of a tendency and interest to return to it for further review and action perhaps. Delighted you are inspired by the cardboard :)) Me too actually; I think I may just start embracing it a little too :)
My love for writing things down was from my mamma too. I'm blessed to have pieces of her writings with me. I want my children and grandchildren to have a part of me with them someday too. Thanks for sharing! I miss my mamma!
My mom and grandmother both. Its funny how writing has changed over the years....heck I can't read what I wrote most of the time....penmanship just isn't there, and no matter what I've tried my writing never seems to improve....so I type everything so I can read it later on when I need to LOL.
Delightful. My Mom did this too. Anything that could take writing got turned into a list or a sketch, especially used envelopes. She even wrote on old tablecloths. I still have a couple notes of hers and its nice to see this beautiful penmanship on such a humble surface. It taught me to see the use in a lot of what would be called trash. That being said it also made it hard, initially (and still sometimes now) to justify pricier notebooks. I keep watching stationary channels and I seem to be overcoming that😋Say 'hi' to your Mum for me.
Oooooooh, I love this! My grandma used to use bits of paper, but she had them everywhere. Not nearly as organized as your Mum! I'd love a video where she explains things a bit more! Her "scrap stack" had several different books in it. Would she be willing to give us a bit more of an explanation for the different uses of each book? I'd love to see her creations, too! Thank you for sharing this with us, Barry! Now we have to meet your mum, if she'll agree to go on camera❤
I haven't used a box for note taking, but I have used cardboard boxes cut up to make bookmarks. I use the back of envelopes that came in the junk mail for scratch paper and grocery lists. Waste not want not!! Thanks for the video, Barry!
I do the same....I had a teacher that would take old papers from old assignments, or whatever, and tear them into 1/4s so 1 sheet of paper turned into 4 pieces, and he'd use them for scratch paper all the time....he never had a single notepad he'd just reuse the backs of old worksheets, and assignments....he kept a stack of the cut down pages in his desk drawer.
Great stuff! I normally keep bits I've printed out (by mistake or no longer need) and rip them into 4 pieces which is an ideal size for shopping lists etc., then once they're finished with they finally go into the recycle bin 😄
Brilliant, indeed. Whenever I'm tempted to argue over my preferences in paper thickness or tooth, or which graphite or ink formulation is best in a given situation, I imagine my parents and grandparents laughing at my silliness. They made do with what they had at hand, and made out quite well.
Wow. That's so fab. My mother did the same. Envelopes. The back of any piece of paper. Our finished homework and test papers. Bank statements. You name it ! She didn't do the cereal boxes but I love that idea. We just never ate it 😂😂
Cereal boxes make great dividers in binders, just cut them down to the size you need....they work great for dividers in recipe boxes too....that's what my grandparents always did with cardboard cereal boxes.
My grandparents had all sorts of random things they'd write stuff down on, might be an old cereal box, cracker box, an old feed sack, backs of receipts, you name it, if you could write on it they used it for notes, appointments, recipes, shopping lists, etc. My grandfather would use a cereal box front or back for dividers in binders, they held up much better than the ones you buy in the store. My grandmother many times would just cut recipes out of magazines, or newspapers, rather than writing them down on another piece of paper or notecard, she'd just clip out the recipe after everyone was done reading the paper or magazine....so a lot of her recipe boxes are full of clippings rather than notecards....some of the notecards she did have were typewritten not just handwritten. I've been going through a lot of them and rewriting them as the words are starting to fade really bad...these recipes are 40+ years old so you can imagine the wear and fading over the years. Grandma did most of the letter writing over the years....and would sometimes send recipes or crochet or knitting instructions to family, and rather than using another piece of paper for the letter, she'd just write on the back of whatever it was she was sending, saved postage that way too by not having extra pages in the envelope. My grandparents lived through the great depression, throwing things away was NOT an option....you reused, recycled, and repurposed....they did that their whole lives, they never outlived those depression era habits....I find stuff out in the storage shed in boxes all the time they'd saved for one reason or another....mostly now we'd consider it clutter and garbage...some of it went in the garbage, but there's been a lot of stuff I've put on the shelves to use later for projects...found a couple full rolls of butcher paper out there too, yep its on the shelf for projects and wrapping material. Its kind of a treasure trove looking through all of my grandparent's and my mother's stuff from over the years, the stuff they saved, etc....sadly a lot of the photos are useless to me as nobody wrote on the backs of them who was in the photos and nobody in the family now has any idea LOL. The things they should have been writing notes about they didn't LOL.
This is wonderful - thanks so much for sharing some of your history with us. Although difficut times during the depression, the attitude of not wasting anything was so good, and really would love to see more of that in today's world, including from myself too. Thanks again!
Lovely video mate. I have a pocket slim Filofax which I stock in a very similar way, with pages cut down from all sorts of different scraps in a similar way to this. Bottoms of pages with only the top halves filled, pages from other discarded notebooks, certain kinds of wrapping paper, scrapped calculation pads from work, edges and back sides of letters and bills... Anything relatively thin that will take ink (it is a slim Filofax after all so not much room for cereal boxes unfortunately, and the Filofax mini punch would struggle with them!) Backs of envelopes are a personal favourite as you can enjoy the various security patterns that were on the inside of the envelopes again while taking notes. I'll collect a pile of scrap material over a few days/weeks and then spend a half hour where necessary cutting the pages down and punching them, while watching TV. I even try to "shuffle" the pages so they come at you in a random order once loaded into the binder. I don't really do it out of necessity although the recycling angle is obviously a bonus, and I will admit it is quite a lot more effort at times than buying new notebooks or refills all the time. Really, I just love the variety it gives you when note-taking, when every page is a completely new colour, texture... Maybe the next page will have some small post mark, creases, torn edges or other feature that evokes a memory of something else. It really makes note-taking a joy. I loved seeing the roots of a similar life-long system in what your mother was doing.
My dear friend, gift an Everbook to your mother so she could find better place for all those loose leaf pages and parts of cardboards!😅 What an amazing example of note taking for kids is that😊
Carlos Grangel is a character designer and the original creator with Tim Burton for the characters on Corpse Bride used cereal boxes to draw on... th-cam.com/video/0BY_U8Qpbys/w-d-xo.html
Your mum is an inspiration.
Ah, thank you! I'll shall let her know for you :)
What a lovely lady.
Thank you - I'll let her know :)
I'd love to see more of your Mum's note taking and budgeting and crafting
Heading to her house again this week hopefully, so will pass on your request :)
Great video. I loved watching it. I would love to see more of what your mum does. She is a gem. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Ah, thank you so much!! Delighted you enjoyed the video - I shall let me mum know :))
That was wonderful!!
Thank you!
Your mom is a treasure
Ah, thank you so much - will let her know :)
Oh, how I miss my Mom! She kept a daily journal for many years! One small indulgence she had was to buy a new notebook every year.
A daily journal and a notebook to last a year - wonderful!
Awesome video and a beautiful piece of your personal family history
Delighted you enjoyed the video - thanks so much! :)
beautiful to see❤
would love to see part 2
Ah thank you! - more indeed to follow :)
Thanks for sharing this lovely video of your mom! It is a good start for my day:)
Thanks so much for watching it! :) Delighted it's helped you today.
Oh yeah, we definitely need more mom! :)
She'll be back, Lord willing! :)
Good morning, Barry! I loved the visit with your mom, she is a treasure. I especially enjoyed seeing her “stash” of saved paper and cereal box scraps, put away for future use. Back in the day, my grandmother and my aunts did the same thing, and I am blessed to have inherited some of those precious recipes and notes in their own handwriting on old, odd scraps of paper…I treasure them! Please thank you mom for sharing hers with us! Blessings to you and yours. ☺️
Meline
Hello Meline, delighted you enjoyed it :) I will indeed thank her for you. God bless!
Your mom is an OG junk journalller. 😎 #junkjournal #junkjournaling 💕💕💕 thank you for recording her and the process. 💕💕💕
:))) Brilliant! I'll let her know :)
My mum always does this! She's 86 this year and she still cuts cereal boxes up like your mum and holds them together with a rubber band to use as needed. She has also always re-used tins, jars etc for other things and never wastes anything.
That is great!! My mum too will be 86 this year, I believe :)
I’m a junk journaller so use food boxes to make notebooks, journals and lapbooks. I save nearly everything made of cardboard as it’s so handy for lots of things, there’s nothing better than a good box 📦 I’d love to see the things your Mum uses and makes ❤
That's brilliant!! I think I may start doing more of this myself now :) I'll certainly record another video about my mum's antics :)
@@barrysanaloginsights Sounds great
Miss the days of cardboard packaging instead of plastic. My mom wrote on cardboard, index cards, reused mailing envelopes. Saving money for the family.
That's brilliant! :)
Another great video Barry, I loved your mum she is nice. Take care from Simon.
Thank you Simon! I'll let her know :)
Waste not want not. What a great idea for note taking your Mum has. I can see where you got your love of writing things down on paper from Barry.
:) She is a big influence indeed.
My mum does this too! Between her and my father, who was a talented artist and taught me about sketchbooks, etc, that's where my interest in stationery came from.
That's lovely.
Fabulous and simple, I love what your mum does. I use a bifold wallet and keep a half pencil in the middle. Folded post it notes and also the backs of large white envelopes get cut into wallet sized bits. That's my on the go notes for when I need to leave one. I also carry a A7 notebook for other stuff. Great videos, thanks.
Ah, that sounds great! Would love to see a photo of that :) Thank you!
I love her! 😊❤
Thank you - will let her know :)
Sweet video
Thank you!
Fantastic, back to the basics. Sometimes when I buy a new journal, I feel guilty for buying it b/c I have so much paper at home. Now with cereal box cutouts, well that just another level. Love the idea and thanks for sharing your mom! Moms are great:)
I know what you mean :) You're very welcome - looking forward to letting her see all the comments :)
My grandfather used cereal boxes for dividers in binders, grandma did the same thing for dividers in recipe boxes. What I find interesting is going through some of that stuff now, and finding all that stuff with prices on whatever the cardboard was from, cereal box with a 59 cent price tag for example....geez a box of cereal is $5+ now....
@@wildbill23c totally agree! They kept things simple back then. No perfect pen or paper to get the job done. Something to be said for that. Hence why I live the analog world.
My mom always had notepads around the house and she would write lists on old envelopes. She would have grocery lists and budgets and school clothes lists. How fantastic that your mom uses these bits of paper and cardboard. I have never seen cardboard used this way. I am inspired!
I went to the doctor not too long ago with one of my son’s and I took out my little notebook to write something down and my son said, “why don’t you just put it in your phone?” I feel like writing things down makes more of an impression and I’m more likely to look at it again.
Agreed! Whenever something is written down, I believe we have more of a tendency and interest to return to it for further review and action perhaps. Delighted you are inspired by the cardboard :)) Me too actually; I think I may just start embracing it a little too :)
My love for writing things down was from my mamma too. I'm blessed to have pieces of her writings with me. I want my children and grandchildren to have a part of me with them someday too. Thanks for sharing! I miss my mamma!
By the way, I'm digging out my cereal boxes 😂 love your mom!
Lovely stuff! :)) I'll let her know :)
It's lovely to have written memories of loved ones - an upcoming video covers that very topic.
My mom and grandmother both. Its funny how writing has changed over the years....heck I can't read what I wrote most of the time....penmanship just isn't there, and no matter what I've tried my writing never seems to improve....so I type everything so I can read it later on when I need to LOL.
Delightful. My Mom did this too. Anything that could take writing got turned into a list or a sketch, especially used envelopes. She even wrote on old tablecloths. I still have a couple notes of hers and its nice to see this beautiful penmanship on such a humble surface. It taught me to see the use in a lot of what would be called trash. That being said it also made it hard, initially (and still sometimes now) to justify pricier notebooks. I keep watching stationary channels and I seem to be overcoming that😋Say 'hi' to your Mum for me.
Tablecloths?! Wow! :) Thanks so much for sharing, and I'll certainly say hi from you :)
Oooooooh, I love this! My grandma used to use bits of paper, but she had them everywhere. Not nearly as organized as your Mum!
I'd love a video where she explains things a bit more! Her "scrap stack" had several different books in it. Would she be willing to give us a bit more of an explanation for the different uses of each book?
I'd love to see her creations, too!
Thank you for sharing this with us, Barry! Now we have to meet your mum, if she'll agree to go on camera❤
Ah, thank you! I shall share your comment with her and see what she says :)
I haven't used a box for note taking, but I have used cardboard boxes cut up to make bookmarks. I use the back of envelopes that came in the junk mail for scratch paper and grocery lists. Waste not want not!! Thanks for the video, Barry!
Good idea on the bookmarks! You're very welcome.
I do the same....I had a teacher that would take old papers from old assignments, or whatever, and tear them into 1/4s so 1 sheet of paper turned into 4 pieces, and he'd use them for scratch paper all the time....he never had a single notepad he'd just reuse the backs of old worksheets, and assignments....he kept a stack of the cut down pages in his desk drawer.
@@wildbill23c That's brilliant!
Great stuff! I normally keep bits I've printed out (by mistake or no longer need) and rip them into 4 pieces which is an ideal size for shopping lists etc., then once they're finished with they finally go into the recycle bin 😄
I do the same! 🙌🏼
Great use of paper!
Brilliant, indeed.
Whenever I'm tempted to argue over my preferences in paper thickness or tooth, or which graphite or ink formulation is best in a given situation, I imagine my parents and grandparents laughing at my silliness. They made do with what they had at hand, and made out quite well.
Absolutely! :)
Wow. That's so fab. My mother did the same. Envelopes. The back of any piece of paper. Our finished homework and test papers. Bank statements. You name it ! She didn't do the cereal boxes but I love that idea. We just never ate it 😂😂
That's brilliant!! Yep, cereals were part of our diet growing up :))
Cereal boxes make great dividers in binders, just cut them down to the size you need....they work great for dividers in recipe boxes too....that's what my grandparents always did with cardboard cereal boxes.
My grandparents had all sorts of random things they'd write stuff down on, might be an old cereal box, cracker box, an old feed sack, backs of receipts, you name it, if you could write on it they used it for notes, appointments, recipes, shopping lists, etc. My grandfather would use a cereal box front or back for dividers in binders, they held up much better than the ones you buy in the store. My grandmother many times would just cut recipes out of magazines, or newspapers, rather than writing them down on another piece of paper or notecard, she'd just clip out the recipe after everyone was done reading the paper or magazine....so a lot of her recipe boxes are full of clippings rather than notecards....some of the notecards she did have were typewritten not just handwritten. I've been going through a lot of them and rewriting them as the words are starting to fade really bad...these recipes are 40+ years old so you can imagine the wear and fading over the years. Grandma did most of the letter writing over the years....and would sometimes send recipes or crochet or knitting instructions to family, and rather than using another piece of paper for the letter, she'd just write on the back of whatever it was she was sending, saved postage that way too by not having extra pages in the envelope.
My grandparents lived through the great depression, throwing things away was NOT an option....you reused, recycled, and repurposed....they did that their whole lives, they never outlived those depression era habits....I find stuff out in the storage shed in boxes all the time they'd saved for one reason or another....mostly now we'd consider it clutter and garbage...some of it went in the garbage, but there's been a lot of stuff I've put on the shelves to use later for projects...found a couple full rolls of butcher paper out there too, yep its on the shelf for projects and wrapping material. Its kind of a treasure trove looking through all of my grandparent's and my mother's stuff from over the years, the stuff they saved, etc....sadly a lot of the photos are useless to me as nobody wrote on the backs of them who was in the photos and nobody in the family now has any idea LOL. The things they should have been writing notes about they didn't LOL.
This is wonderful - thanks so much for sharing some of your history with us. Although difficut times during the depression, the attitude of not wasting anything was so good, and really would love to see more of that in today's world, including from myself too. Thanks again!
Lovely video mate.
I have a pocket slim Filofax which I stock in a very similar way, with pages cut down from all sorts of different scraps in a similar way to this. Bottoms of pages with only the top halves filled, pages from other discarded notebooks, certain kinds of wrapping paper, scrapped calculation pads from work, edges and back sides of letters and bills... Anything relatively thin that will take ink (it is a slim Filofax after all so not much room for cereal boxes unfortunately, and the Filofax mini punch would struggle with them!) Backs of envelopes are a personal favourite as you can enjoy the various security patterns that were on the inside of the envelopes again while taking notes. I'll collect a pile of scrap material over a few days/weeks and then spend a half hour where necessary cutting the pages down and punching them, while watching TV. I even try to "shuffle" the pages so they come at you in a random order once loaded into the binder.
I don't really do it out of necessity although the recycling angle is obviously a bonus, and I will admit it is quite a lot more effort at times than buying new notebooks or refills all the time. Really, I just love the variety it gives you when note-taking, when every page is a completely new colour, texture... Maybe the next page will have some small post mark, creases, torn edges or other feature that evokes a memory of something else. It really makes note-taking a joy.
I loved seeing the roots of a similar life-long system in what your mother was doing.
Thanks so much for this! Sounds fantastic; would love to see what the binder looks like :) I'd like to get a Filofax Slim one day. Thanks again!
If more people were like your mom stationery stores would go out of business :D
:)) They sure would!
Of the stationary stores would be filled with much different products....i.e. old empty cereal boxes, old receipts, etc. LOL.
My dear friend, gift an Everbook to your mother so she could find better place for all those loose leaf pages and parts of cardboards!😅
What an amazing example of note taking for kids is that😊
Absolutely!! :)
❤️
Carlos Grangel is a character designer and the original creator with Tim Burton for the characters on Corpse Bride used cereal boxes to draw on...
th-cam.com/video/0BY_U8Qpbys/w-d-xo.html
That is so brilliant - thank you for sharing that! :)
My dad does something simuler!
That's splendid! :)