Tuesday Teacher Tip - Storage for Bulletin Boards

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Now for a Tuesday Tip.

How do you store your bulletin board things and posters? 

For the past 20 years I have used large art portfolios to store mine. They were getting a little stinky after sitting on the floor for 20 years, so I decided over Spring Break to get new ones. So I went to Office Max and the portfolios I had been using were about $20 a piece. No way! I needed about 10. I have everything organized by month, season, or other categories. Anyway I remembered seeing a fellow teacher having garment bags laying on the floor in her storage closet filled with bulletin board supplies. I went to Wal-Mart, thinking they will be cheap, but $8 a piece was just OK and besides there was a Dollar Tree across the street. Guess What I Found! Garment bags -$1! My kinda price. I figured I could always bring them back, if they were to flimsy, or I could buy new ones every year at $1 a piece.  

I keep all the bags from my bulletin board sets, so I used clothespins

 to attach the bags to hangers, and then inserted them in the garment bags.

Use a permanent marker to label each garment bag.

 I now have them hung up in a closet in my basement. 

They are off the floor and so much easier to look through.

So neat and organized, 

and no more old smelly cardboard art portfolios.