Works for Me Wednesday: Recipe Box Addresses

Address books do NOT work for me. At all. The reason is because I am too obsessive-compulsive for them. People move, change phone numbers, etc., and I don't like the way the address books get all crossed out and ugly looking. Crazy, I know. I also have a problem with the too-small spaces in address books. I like to include address, home phone, cell phone, birthdays of everyone in the household, and anniversary dates. Having all of this information in one place helps keep me organized. Once upon a time I typed an address database where I just printed, cut, and glued them to index cards. Then came the Great Computer Crashes (2!) of 2004, and I haven't done it since. I got the wooden recipe box free from my mom, and the blue index cards were .12 (clearance) at Office Depot. I don't worry about alphabetizing within each individual letter because I like to keep the "most used" addresses toward the front of the letter section. So as long as John Doe makes it back to the D section, all is good. This is also handy when you just need a few addresses/phone numbers/birthdates and you can pull out their cards and take them anywhere with you. Works for me! Go check out Shannon and the other WFMW ideas at http://rocksinmydryer.typepad.com/.