hi, everyone. so a lot of people have requesteda video on back to school organizing since school starts next week or the week. so eventhough i'm not in school anymore, i just figured i would just do a quick video and share withyou guys the things that i did do and that i remember in high school to stay organized.the video is primarily going to focus on how to set up your binder like the things thati did in my binder to keep it organized and
how much do color copies cost at office depot, the types of supplies that i use. now, i would love to do a video on how toorganize your locker and a few people have asked me to do that. but i don't have a lockerto demonstrate. and yeah, so it's kind of hard to do without having a locker. so, letme grab the camera and show you guys my binder
and then some supplies that i like to use. ok. so let me start by showing you guys myfavorite school supplies. so i'm not really a pencil person because i'm left-handed andwhen i'm writing with my left hand i get ink on the side of my hand right here becausei'm writing over the thing i just wrote. so yes, i prefer pens. but when i have to usea pencil for something like for math or for drawing something then i'll use mechanicalpencils because i feel like i don't know, i just like mechanical pencils better becausethere's no sharpener needed so it's one last thing to carry and i feel like they just writethinner and neater and just cleaner than a normal pencil. so these are my favorite pencils.
ok. so these are my favorite pens. they'rethe uni-ball, jetstream, fine point 0.7. i am really picky with the pens i write with.i feel like if i write with a bad pen like something that doesn't write very smoothly,my handwriting is really sloppy. but when i write with a good pen, it's really neatand legible. so these are the pens i like to use. i've been using them for a while andthey just write very smoothly and i just love them. so if you are a pen person where youhave to write with a good pen and you've never tried these, you have to try them out, uni-ball,jetstream, fine point 0.7. these are my favorite markers. they are thefine points that sharpie makes. sharpie makes a lot of different points like thick. theymake just - i don't know what they all are
but they make a lot of different ones. thefine point just writes smoothly and it's not too thick. you can write small with them andit still comes out legible. i like getting the multipack just like incolor code things that i'm using markers. costco sales them at a really good price.this is not the costco version but costco sales a big pack for not as expensive as ifyou bought something like this at a normal office supplies store. ok. so another marker i really like are thesesharpie ultra fine point markers. they have ultra fine point like i just said. you couldsee how small it is. i feel like these markers are perfect for writing in your agenda bookbecause they're so small that you can write
or the point is so small that you can writereally small and still be able to see it as opposed to these fine points. you can writesmall but you can't write that small. so yes, these ones are nice. ok. so when i was in high school, we alwayshave like speeches in english or some type of presentation to give and that would alwaysrequire writing out your speech or writing out your presentation and memorizing it. soi always used to use colored index cards because i felt like if i use a different color indexcard for a different page like if there were ten note cards i was trying to memorize andeach page is a different color if you like, it would just be easier to remember. likei remember that blah, blah, blah was on the
green card. so yeah, so i just felt like usingcolored note cards made memorization for speeches a lot easier than like traditional white indexcards. so color flags are another thing. i don'treally remember using them as much in high school like i'm not sure i have them in highschool. but i definitely had them in college and always used to use them in my agenda bookand in my notepads to kind of place mark or to kind of remember where a certain note wasor a certain page was. so these come in five different colors. they're made by post-itnotes. i still use them for different things. but i specifically remember using them incollege for my agenda book. i always used to carry a separate eraser withme in my pencil case like different from my
mechanical pencils in case that eraser runout, i always had a backup eraser because i feel like these erasers are just so smalland they run out easy. so it's just good to have a backup one in case you need an eraser. so another thing i would carry with me inmy backpack or my pencil case or my locker is a stapler. and i wouldn't carry a regularsize stapler. i would just carry a mini stapler because it's lightweight, it doesn't takeup so much space and i would just like to always have my own stapler in case the classroomstapler wasn't available or there was no stapler around that i could use. i always had my own. now, i just love this stapler. i got thisa few years ago. it's a piece of sushi in
a shape of stapler and it's just so cute.i got it in one of those gag gift stores. when i saw it, i was like, "oh, that's sofun." yeah, it's just like so fun. so i prefer to use lighter highlighters likeyellow or a pink as opposed to a blue or green or dark purple highlighter. i just feel likewhen you use a dark colored highlighter, it crosses out the text and you can't reallysee the text that you're trying to highlight. so it's kind of like pointless. as opposedto the yellow or the pink, it just highlights it and you can easily see the text underneaththe highlighter. so i would stick to yellow - stick to the lighter color as opposed todarker colors. and these retractable ones, i really like.it's not like too thick of a point or when
you highlight something, it goes on to thenext line or the line above. it's small enough or it's a perfect size to highlight like oneline. ok. so let me show you the fake binder thati put together for you guys. i put some pictures inside of the cover just like i did in highschool. it has like one of those plastic covers. so usually, i'll either like put - i'm sayingusually. i'm not in school anymore but when i was in school, i would put my schedule insideof the plastic cover or i would put photographs that were like taped down to a piece of paperso they wouldn't slide around or move when the binder was moved. so these are just tapeddown to this piece of paper and then put inside the cover.
so let me quickly show you the pictures. thiswas me during my high school graduation. i had blond hair like three out of the fouryears in high school. this was my best friend, daniela. we were just like inseparable allfour years. this was my college graduation. these aremy two best friends from college. they were also my roommates. yeah, it was graduation.i dyed my hair darker or back to my normal color for college. this was my senior year picture. i had darkhair. i got rid of the blond in my senior year. this was - this is when ed and i met. thisis like maybe the first two months that we
met. this was our poodle in high school named prince. ok. so this binder is one and a half inchesthick. so when i was in high school, i never really carry anything bigger than two inchesbecause i feel like anything bigger than two inches is just like so thick to carry. i meanif your binder is two inches thick and you need more space then you can always take stuffout that you're not using and leave it at home or keep it in your locker or something.yeah, i just feel like anything bigger than two inches is too thick. so this is one anda half inches just to show you guys. ok. so these are the dividers that i havein this binder. now, are these the ones that
i used ten years ago when i was in high school?no, probably not. i don't think these were even around ten years ago. but i like theseones. i've mentioned before that these are my favorite dividers of all time. they arethe avery color-coded dividers that have a nice table of contents in the very front whereyou could label that sheet. the reason why i chose these ones in the videoand why i would use them now if i was still in school is because they have this nice pocketin the very front of the divider. now, there are a lot of times that - i'm just tryingto remember back to high school. there were times when teachers would hand out papersor assignments and there would be no holes in the paper. and you would just have to putthe piece of paper in the very front of the
binder and this pocket until you got homeand put holes into the paper and then put them into a divider. so having a little pocket here with the correspondingclass that it belong to is just really helpful. and then also, it's nice for things that - likesmall pieces of paper that you obviously can't put in the binder or maybe you can. you canput it like in one hole but then it slides back and forth and around and stuff. so it'snice to have a pocket for smaller things also. so yes, so these are nice dividers. ok. so let's talk about labeling that tabsin your dividers. now, these dividers just came with these little inserts right hereto stick inside the tab to write the class
name on them. but i feel like every time youlabel these things and you stick them in, they will just like fall out the other sideor they start to come and you're always like fixing them, trying to get them lined up.so instead of using these, all i do is label the actual tabs itself with my label maker. now, i didn't do this when i was in high school.but if i was in high school now, this is what i would totally do. so i'll just grab my labelmaker and i use my clear tape with my white font or my white text and write the subjectand then just label the dividers. now, nothing is going to come in and out because it's stuckto the tab. now ok, so labeling the tabs. so what i usedto do was label the tabs according to my class
schedule. so the first divider would alwaysbe like period one, so english. and then period two was science, period three was math, andthen period four was spanish and so forth. there are only five tabs here. what you coulddo is if you have - like we always had eight periods in the day. actually, we had sevenplus lunch. so what i would do is just get two more and stick them behind, so periodsix, period seven or period seven and period eight. so yeah, so that's what i did withmy dividers. ok. so something else i would do is behindeach divider like the first piece of paper behind here would always be the class syllabusclass schedule. that would always be the first piece of paper behind each divider. and usually,you get that like the first day of school
or the first week of school. so yeah, so that'sthe first thing. and then what i would keep traditionally inthe binder is i would keep homework assignments, worksheets given by teacher or what else?that's me. i would always take all of my notes in a separate notebook that i'm going to showyou guys. ok. so the paper in front of the divider ispaper for homework assignments and also for assignments that you're going to completein class and turn in that day or turn in at a separate time. it's not really for notetaking. i always took my notes on a separate notebook like this and kept them all together.i'll show you guys that after. but yeah, this is just for homework and assignments herethat you're doing in class.
and then my pencil case. so pencil case, sometimesi would keep it in my binder and sometimes i would keep it in my backpack. but i wouldalways use something that was clear so you could easily see what you had inside. usually,my pencil case would be inside my binder in the beginning of the school year and thenas my binder got full, i would just pull it out and keep it inside my backpack. ok. so the front sleeves of the binder. solike i mentioned before, anytime you get papers from teachers that don't have holes in themand you need to go home and punch the holes or maybe you have a hole puncher right herein front of the binder, i actually never used to like these things right there because ifeel like they would get in the way. i would
either keep it in my locker or i would justkeep it at home. but anyway, papers that don't have holes cango here temporarily until you go home and punch holes. you want to avoid getting intothe habit of every time you get a piece of paper back from the teacher or she gives outpaper just sticking it in here like you want to get into the habit of immediately puttingit in its section so your binder stays organized. one thing i would do when i was in high schoolwas every sunday night, i would go through my binder and clean everything out like ifthere are papers here, i'd put it in its section. if there are papers in each section that couldbe taken out or i don't need them anymore, i would get rid of them or i would put themin a filing cabinet at home. what i wouldn't
do is keep my binder a mess and start theweek out like on a messy note. i was always very good about that. so that's one thingthat i would recommend doing. ok. so the same thing with the back pockethere, i actually never used to put papers back here because they feel like it was justlike so far away and you just really couldn't see the stuff there as opposed to the frontcover, you always saw it first thing when you open up the binder. but this is the placewhere you could put papers that need to be hole-punched. but as soon as you got home,hole-punch them and put them away in its section. ok. so one more thing about binders beforei move on to show you guys my notebook, i always like to using one binder as opposedto like three or four smaller binders like
one inch binders. i feel like having everythingtogether just made more sense for me and it was easier to remember where things were andit was less trips back and forth to my locker, having to switch binders and stuff. so havingone binder just worked really well for me. ok. so if you're not a binder person, meaningyou don't like the rings in the binder and because you don't like the binder then papersdon't get put inside. you want to eliminate that obstacle all together because it's justpreventing you from getting more organized in school. so if that's the case then youcould try using folders. i used folders in college and i found thatit kept me organized. they're light to carry. you can color-code them so like pink for science,blue for english and so forth. so it just
makes it easier to find out what you're lookingfor because maybe a month into school, you probably have it memorize that yes, pink isscience. so that's just one way to not use a binder if you're not a binder person. ok. so if you're not a binder person and you'renot really a folder person because you feel like folders don't hold enough paper for you.they do make another product. it's a cross between a binder and an accordion but it doesn'tlook like an embarrassing accordion that you would be embarrassed to carry at school. itjust looks like a binder but it's an accordion style where you can just like shove the papersinside. there are no rings in the binders. yeah, there are no rings. you just like shovethe stuff inside.
i really want to show it in this video butit's only available online. and unfortunately, i wanted to do the video this week beforeschool started so i wasn't able to actually get the product. but i will show you - i willorder it and i will show it to you guys in a separate video because it's great for peoplethat love to pile instead of file. so if you are the type that piles and you don't likebinders and struggle with paper management, i will do a video coming up very soon on thatvery cool product that is very helpful for those types of individuals. ok. so like i mentioned while i was talkingabout the binders, when i was in high school, i preferred to take notes from all my classesinto one notebook as opposed to writing them
on a loose leaf piece of paper in the binderand then just filing away inside the divider that it belonged in. so this is a notebook that i use right nowfor work, and i love it. i search like all over the place for the perfect notebook forme to use. this is actually from office depot. it's the cambridge limited and i got it recently.but i always search for good notebooks to use because i'm very picky with the ones iuse. now, let me tell you why i liked this one.i liked this one because it had dark lines. now, i'd like to write on dark lines. whatreally bothers me is when you have paper with really light lines and you have a dark penand you just like - i feel like the text is
just floating on the paper because i can'tsee the lines. so i always like paper with dark lines so this one had a really dark lineso i really liked it. and also, the lines, it was kind of a crossbetween wide-ruled and college-ruled. like i feel like wide-ruled is too wide and college-ruledis too small. so this one was kind of like a combination of both into one. so it waslike the perfect size. and then it had up here where you could justwrite the page number or the date or what i'd like to do is i just write the subjectinto the blue line of what i'm taking notes on. so if i'm taking notes on something inhistory about world war ii then i would just like write world war ii - blah, blah, blahor whatever i'm taking notes on. and i would
write that in - what i usually do is i writeit in a marker so it kind of stands out. so when i'm looking for certain notes, i cankind of just flip through and check out all the subjects and easily find exactly whati'm looking for. something else i really like about this notebookis that it's perforated on the edges so if i need to tear something out, i can just tearit out along the line and not have to reap it out of the rings and leave like a fringeon the side of the paper. now, the one thing missing in this notebookif you are in high school and you are taking notes for like five or six different subjects,it's missing dividers like the seven-subject notebooks or the five-subject or the three-subject.like this is only one subject.
now, they might have had a three-subject orfive-subject, i'm not really sure or this brand might make one, cambridge limited. youjust have to check. but what i would do is if you want to use something like this stylethat i showed is i would just use a flag at the top of the paper and kind of divide outwhere like where math starts, where math ends, where social studies starts, where socialstudies ends and so forth. so kind of create your own dividers. ok. so like i said, i used to write all mynotes inside a one notebook as opposed to writing them on like single sheets of paperand then putting them inside my binder. everything would just be in one notebook.
ok. so those are my tips for heading backto school and how to organize your binder and the types of supplies that i like to useor i think are good to use. if you're about to head back to school and you have an organizedbinder, backpack or something really just cool that you want to share with us that youthink will help others, create a video response, upload it here or leave a comment below andtell us exactly what you're doing. i would love to see it and i'm sure everyone watchingwould love to see. and also before i leave this video, i justwant to say, if you're about to head back to school, have a great year. yes, i knoworganizing requires a little bit time upfront and also maintaining. but if you can manageto stay organized throughout the school year
then you are going to be more productive.you're going to be more focused. and you're just going to get better grades because you'regoing to know when you have assignments to do, projects to do, you're going to know whenyou have a test coming up because you're organized and you're on top of things. and at the same time, you are not going tobe turning in homework late because things are going to make it out of the binder, backinto the binder, into your backpack on a timely manner unlike people who are not organizedwho might leave their homework at home or leave in the bottom of their locker or haveit get lost in the bottom of their backpack with like smooch with all these paper andstuff. like you're going to be the person
that's going to know where things are, getthem in on time, and that's going to lead to you getting better grades. so that's all i have for you guys. i hopeyou have a great school year. and i will see you soon. bye!7
