Coat Closet

Are you all sick of classroom posts yet?

Too bad!

Inside the coat closet in my room are hooks for my little monsters to hang their coats and backpacks on. My mom, sister, and I spent a good half hour scraping and scrubbing off at least three types of labels (that were layered on top of each other!) with the nasty goo-gone product (but which also works LOVELY on stubborn sticky labels that won't get off). After finally getting down to the wood, I was bound and determined to not put anymore labels in this closet. There was no way I was going to spend next year scraping and scrubbing if I didn't have to.

So I came up with this idea...

Zip ties! The extra still needs to be cut off, but these babies are just as good as labels (better, I think) and won't come off! They're sturdy and perfect. I spent a couple of minutes tossing backpacks on them and attempting to get them off.

And the result was... they refused to come off! They won't come off until I actually cut them off if I want to change them out next year.

I'll leave you with a close up of the handmade monsters my sister made for my classroom! She has quite the talent for crocheting and I'm lucky to benefit from it!


(There are still two monsters on the way... my sister is awesome)

P.s. The lamp was only 4 big ones at IKEA. 4 dollars!

Can't go wrong at IKEA.