Sometimes the most important thing you can do to keep organized is to communicate with yourself. Leaving reminders and notes can help you remember to take care of those little tasks you put aside too often due to hassle and inconvenience, like phone calls. Usually anything that involves waiting on hold on the phone gets moved to the back of a priority list. Those calls may only last a few minutes but it feels like months and years. It’s difficult to find a way to remind yourself to get these unpleasant tasks done. Depending on the space you may not be able to put sticky notes onto things, and the glue can fall off. Paper notes stuck via tape or tacks can be even more problematic, as the wrong tape can peel paint off the wall and tacks create holes. For most spaces the best tool is a dry erase board, or would be if the boards were more convenient and discrete. Erasable wall paint is another option that provides the ability to leave notes to yourself that you’ll see and that will disappear completely when not in use. Let’s examine the three basic ways to leave notes to yourself so we can all be organized.
All options have advantages and disadvantages. The biggest advantage of paper notes to yourself is the low upfront cost. You most likely already have paper, pen and tape so it costs nothing. If you want sticky notes they can usually be bought for less than a soda. White boards are in the middle for cost as the board and pens can run you about the cost of a cheap lunch to a good lunch depending on the size. Finally, erasable wall paint is the most expensive upfront but once installed only needs the cost of dry erase markers. The biggest disadvantage to paper notes is that they can be easily lost in the shuffle, or fall off of what they were stuck to rending them useless. They also tend to be small and be written on in small print.
The biggest advantage of a dry erase board is that once the upfront cost is covered there’s almost no other cost and it allows you to write big obvious messages to yourself. The biggest weakness for dry erase boards is that once the message is gone you have a big ugly board on your wall, you can put it away when not in use but let’s be honest once that happens it’s not coming back out, once it’s on the wall you’re leaving it there because going to get it every time is obnoxious.
Erasable wall paint while expensive offers a fun and attractive option, when not in use it’s invisible, when in use you can leave yourself a message so obvious you can’t miss it. So while expensive, it offers both visibility and discreteness. In the end it depends on what you need to write notes and reminders for and what works for you, but if you’re the type who always puts things off because they don’t remember at a convenient time, erasable wall paint might be right for you.
Wink’s clear erasable wall paint turns any paintable surface into a place to write, erase, and repeat. Just grab a dry erase marker and start sharing ideas, organizing and creating, everywhere, without the limits of a whiteboard. To learn more about Wink, visit website index.html email info@wallsloveink.com or call 800.632.9465.
