Organization Project 101: User Manuals

This past week was an unusual one for me.  It has been fragmented by rain, ice, then snow and frigid temperatures.  This has caused my work to be closed for the past few days, and luckily has given me some time to work on a few things around my house that I have been needing/wanting to do, but just never got around to doing.

One of those things was organizing a drawer full of product manuals that I have had since we moved into our house.  Being as it has been almost 5 years since we got married and moved into our house, you can imagine what this drawer looked like.  Pretty rough.

Here is the problem.  This pic doesn't really do it justice.  

So, for the solution, I had been planning on/wanting to load everything up into a notebook to keep it all organized, but like most things, I just hadn't gotten around to it.  Some time back, I think I saw this on pinterest or something like that, but I went back through all my pins and I can't find it.  Just know I am not smart/creative enough to come up with this idea on my own, but I can't direct you to the site where I found it because I don't remember.  Shocker.  Anyway, it worked out really well, and now I know where to find these user manuals in case I need them, which in a lot of cases I do.  Also, I now have a free drawer in my dining room, which is awesome.  Here is what I did: 

I used a basic 3-ring binder, a pack of sheet protectors and some dividers for different sections. 

Then I loaded up those babies with all the different user guides/instruction manuals I had and voila:

 Nice and organized.  I separated my sections into small kitchen appliances, household products, baby products, large appliances and miscellaneous.  It felt great to get some extra organization going on during my snow day.  

Also, I will say this will be nice in case we ever sell any of those items, we can go and pull all of the instruction manuals that go with it, which would be helpful to the new owner.  

How do you all keep up with these types of things without letting clutter overtake your life?