hey guys it's Noel in my past plan with
me videos I've been showing you how to
organize your life on paper but let's be
real as amazing as it is planning out
your goals and keeping track of all your
notes sometimes you just need help
organizing your disaster of a backpack
trust me I get it at the beginning of
the year your backpack is clean and
crisp and you've got a pencil box in
there and all your notebooks have barely
been touched but by the end of week
three it's an absolute disaster all your
notebooks are a complete mess you don't
know which one was meant for which class
your earbuds are a knotted mess at the
bottom of your bag and all your pencils
have completely disappeared well it's
time to put these messy backpack clothes
behind you because I've got a bunch of
tips and tricks on how to get rid of all
the clutter and make your backpack
useful again before I get into it
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alright let's get into it so this is my
backpack and it is insanely messy so if
the inside of your backpack looks a
little like this here are some great
ideas to fix it so first things first
you have to get the right backpack which
for me means that I've got to ditch this
as much as I love it and it's super cute
it only has two pockets which means that
you only have one or two places to put
all your things and that increases the
chance that all your stuff is gonna get
jumbled together and become really messy
so here is the super cute backpack that
I got from roomie and it is
exponentially better for organizing your
school supplies it has not only like the
big main pocket and the mini pocket it
has like a second mini pocket for you to
put all your stuff in and then when you
open it it has like endless inner
pockets that you can use alright so
let's start organizing so now that you
have the perfect backpack it's time to
separate all of your stuff into
categories because that will indicate
which pocket each thing should go into
so over here are all my notebooks and
books and
like stray papers that would go in the
main pocket of my backpack all the kind
of massive stuff and then here I have
kind of like my beauty and hygiene stuff
then I have my pencils and pens and
sticky notes I have just like
miscellaneous stuff here which is like
my earbuds which were tangled and like
at the bottom of the bag and change so
I've just separated all my stuff into
kind of the rough categories so the
third step is to consolidate your school
supplies where you ten so I have three
separate notebooks three different
colored folders and two college
textbooks so you might feel like you
need a separate notebook and folder for
every class but chances are that's gonna
become a hassle if you're not a very
tidy person and it's gonna fly mess so
my suggestion for you is to consolidate
all your notebooks and folders one
option for you would be to get a four or
five subject notebook like this one this
notebook is like a normal typical me it
has different colored sections for your
different subjects so that you know
where each subject starts the notebook a
five subject notebook to get rid of all
your separate notebooks it's definitely
a great option but there is always the
possibility that you're gonna run out of
pages in one section before you run out
of pages in your other classes sections
and then you would have to get another
notebook to supplement that section and
carry it around with your one subject
notebook and it just becomes more of a
hassle so another option if you want to
avoid running out of pages in a 5
subject notebook is to get a
customizable notebook system like The
Arc System by staples this is great
because you never have to worry about
running out of pages in a section and
it's super customizable you can add
separators and make it for subject or
five subject or six subject depending on
what you need for the school year
I have three notebooks for my three
courses
say it's like English math and science
so if I want to set up my arc to get rid
of these I got these little divider
inserts that will let me kind of turn it
into a three subject notebook after you
put in your dividers just make a label
for each section so what's great about
this is that when you run out of pages
in a particular section you can always
just run out and get some more so now
you don't need your solo notebooks and
you can get rid of those next let's
tackle our folders so I had these three
folders in my messy backpack so there
are a couple of options to consolidate
your folders either you can get folders
to go into your art which is a good
option but I personally like to keep my
papers separate from my notebook so
another option would be to get an
expanding file system you can get one of
these nifty things from any drugstore
and what it is is it's like a little a
little accordion of folders with this
you can separate all your papers and
have them in one place at the same time
that way you don't have to like dig in
your backpack at the beginning of class
and worry about pulling out the right
folder for the right class it's all
right in here so we just went from three
notebooks in three different folders to
one big notebook and one accordion file
which is for less space to keep me in
your backpack which is amazing
consolidation complete so now it's time
to deal with all of your like
miscellaneous kind of small
knickknacks that are cluttering up your
backpack so I'm gonna go through all of
these things and put them into pouches
to keep them safe and organized in my
backpack so let's start with my pens and
pencils you might be tempted to kind of
just like find the smallest pocket in
your backpack and throw them all in
there
but the problem with that is that then
the pens can like poke holes in your
backpack and the pencil will get will
like mark up the inside of your backpack
and it just gets really messy and not
good so to save your backpack the damage
you should get a little pencil case and
put all of your pens and pencils inside
of that so that your backpack does not
get affected so I've got this really
cool pouch thingy with three sections in
it it's called a baggie all from Rumi
and I'm going to separate all of my
beauty products into the three different
pockets I'm gonna put makeup in deep
bottom and then in third pocket I will
put my pad
damn pop so you know that moment where
you go to lunch and you buy it
and then you get changed and you just
quickly throw it in whatever pocket is
open in your backpack and like - out of
the cafeteria well that creates a mess
in your backpack so you should get a
change purse like this so treat yourself
and put your change in it so that that
doesn't happen anymore earphones are the
most frustrating thing because you
probably spend more time trying to
unknot them than you do actually
listening to music in between classes or
on a home so what I got is a cord taco
this little like genius magical
contraption is going to keep your
earphones from tangling up this is also
from Rumi so this little cord taco
contraption will make it so that your
cord doesn't get all messy and tied up
in a knot the next time that you want to
listen to some music so the rest of this
stuff is actually stuff that I don't
feel like needs to go in a pouch because
like your keys
you don't want to have to dig into a
pocket and then another pocket and to
get into your house so the final step in
organizing your backpack is to actually
pack your bag and
key to making everything fit and stay
organized is to organize your stuff in
your backpack from the biggest item to
the smallest item from the back of your
backpack to the front that way you're
conserving space and making more space
for all your stuff first I put my file
accordion with all my papers in it
because that's the tallest item and then
I put in my ark notebook because that's
the second tallest then I put in my two
textbooks that really does it for what I
want to put in the main pocket since my
beauty products and my hygiene products
I don't need easy access to those so
I'll just put those in one of the flaps
that's on the inside of the main pocket
and then I'm gonna put my umbrella in
one of the pouches on the side of my
backpack then I'm gonna move on to the
medium-sized pocket on my backpack I'm
gonna put my pens and pencil into that
pocket and also my sticky notes because
this pocket has a little bit easier
access than the main pocket so then we
move on to the tiniest pocket and in
that one since it's the easiest access
I'm gonna put my earphones because I
might have to get to them like in
between every class my keys and my
change purse so now that your backpack
is all organized and packed you actually
have a lot more room to fit more stuff
without it becoming a disaster zone so
with that said a very important part of
your day is drinking a lot of water so
why not share your water bottle in your
other mini pouch on the side of your
backpack I have more room in my main
pouch so I'm gonna put in my agenda I'll
put my extra markers in my
so case and put that back into the
middle pocket and then I'll carry around
some extra tabs for my arc notebook in
there too that's it
I hope these organization tips will help
you keep your backpack clean this year
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bye guys