If you are anything like me (or the estimated 4 MILLION unique visitors per day) you may spend a bit too much of your free time on Pinterest. Time you should be doing something productive.

If you are anything like me, you have stacks of old magazines laying around the house, collecting dust bunnies, and resembling the Leaning Tower of Pisa. There’s stuff in there you want to keep, but what do you do with it?

I’ve tried to rip out pages of design ideas, gift suggestions, cute outfits, and the bane of my clutter RECIPES. For years I neatly cut out and taped all the recipes into homemade cookbooks.  Then I moved onto a database file system, but that involved cutting and pasting and reformatting, and the photos rarely transferred correctly.

If you follow me on Pinterest (and if not, why not?) you may have noticed I’ve been pinning like a crack fiend lately.  I’m going through all my old magazines, pinning the recipes & designs I want to keep, so I can get rid of the clutter.

Those magazines from 2010 — gone!

{Technically, they are being ceremoniously donated to the library book store so someone else can enjoy them.}

It’s so much easier to flip through my Pintrest pics to get dinner ideas. And there’s room to comment on them, so I can add if I’ve tried it/liked it/altered it.***

And there’s no worry about copyright infringement — everyone from Better Homes & Gardens to Martha Stewart now has a “Pin It” button right on the page. They’ve come to recognize the power of sharing good ideas.

Give it a try. Get rid of the clutter! And make something good for dinner.

Speaking of something good for dinner … We’ve all collected recipes and craft ideas (even though we may hate cooking and be utterly un-crafty) on Pinterest and dreamed we could do it just like in the beautiful photo.

Right.

Sometimes it does work.

Sometimes we end up with a muffin tin we just throw away instead of scrub or a cake that looks like roadkill.

We all photograph our projects (you know you do), so why not share the hits and misses. We all want to know what works. We all want to laugh at the flops so we don’t feel so bad about our failures. And it’s just nice to know what ideas are really worth a try.

So come back for PINTEREST HIT OR MISS MONDAY and link up you success and failures. Please? We promise not to laugh too hard… unless you want us to…