Material Management Tricks

1. Files can be your best friend. Use an accordion file folder with 7 pockets instead of a huge 3 ring binder. It lets you file handouts, assignments, homework, returned tests etc. in a file that is user friendly. No need to 3 hole punch anything or to stick in inside an open slot until you can file it later. Instead, you simply slide it into the correct slot and it cannot escape until you pull it out. Hence, no loose or lost papers. If you accidentally cannot locate something, you know it is in the folder, but it could be in the wrong slot.
   
   
2. Set up a file drawer in your room or house. Each file should contain a specific subject. When you clean out your accordion file folder, move old tests, notes etc. to the file. Then at the dreaded moment of finals, you will have everything you need in one place.
   
   
3. Clean out your accordion file folder and your locker once per week. Pick a set time and be religious about it. It will save you a ton of time in the long run.
   
   
4. Keep your planner and your spiral notebooks in the accordion file folder as well.
   
   
5. Set up a small dry erase board and some hanging dry erase pens on the door of your locker. Each time you return to your locker after a class, make a note of the books you will need to bring home that night. Then at the end of the day, you simply look at the board and pack up the necessary books and stuff.
   
   
6. Keep a magnetic pencil holder in your locker or a pencil case in your file folder. Never be without writing tools.
   

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