Tuesday, September 18, 2012

DIY Mail Organizer

I hate mail. Paper mail.

This is along with hating noodles, pollution, kheer, corruption , mosquitos,  rice pudding, puris, dirty hands, apple pie , dirty lakes/ponds etc etc etc.

Wow, I sat here about 10 to 15 minutes to just think what I hate. Why did I do that? 
Anyways, coming back to paper mail. There's always so much of junk paper mail everyday.Whenever we get the mail from our mailbox, almost 7 out of ten times, the papers get strewn around our house. My adorable son loves to spread all the papers around and I just hate it. Here, there's another thing I hate.

I wonder how much of trees are cut up just for these paper mails. Anyways I was in need of a paper mail organizer and here's how I did it. 

Things needed:
2 Cereal boxes, more or less of the same size.
Scissors
Cello Tape
Glue
Any Nice looking paper
Marker
Measuring Scale / Ruler

Take 2 cereal boxes.

 

Cut one elongated side of both the boxes as shown. Close both the shorter sides (the top and the base) using cello tape on the top side of the box. 



Now apply glue on the bigger side of one box and place another box over it as shown. After this, seal all the closed edges with cello tape.


Now I measured 4 cms on the side of one box, and using a marker draw a line joining it to the top of other box as shown. This is just to get an oblique look. Do this on both the sides and cut along the line.


This is how it looks after cutting it on both the sides.


Now , I had these Shopping paper bags which were just lying in my cupboard. So I gave them some work. I cut them up into pieces.


With the help of glue I stuck these pieces all around the  cereal boxes. I salvages the letters M,A,I,L from the shopping bag and finished the look by sticking it onto the finished piece. 


So here's how you do this easy, peasy, neat mail organizer. Oh, wondered why I used 2 boxes? One is for the mail to be sorted out and the other section is for the mails and coupons that are in use.

Ok, I can't leave this post with those words of hatred. So for some love here's this lovely picture of dolphins flying in air momentarily before plunging into the blue water.


OK then have a lovely time until we meet next.





1 comment:

The Color Blue said...

I'm so glad you hate mail! I was searching for other people to sign my anti-mail petition.

Save the environment, money & time: stop paper mail!

In the year 2013, there is no reason to continue using an outdated, expensive, wasteful & unreliable paper mail system when the technology of instant communication and traceable messages can be sent by email.

http://signon.org/sign/save-the-environment-1?source=c.em.mt&r_by=738249

We only need 50 signatures to get it considered, so pass it on!