You may want to have a separate database for your clothing, since you may not want search results from your clothing to come up when searching in your main database. If that is the case, create a new database for your clothing, ex: Cathie’s Clothes

You then might have a Location named for each of the following. These are only suggestions…you name them the way you think:
-Hanging (for the clothes in your closet you have hanging),
-Shelving (for the clothes you have folded in open shelving)
-Boxed (this could also be named where you have the boxes stored)

If this is not enough Locations for how you want to organize them, then you could also have locations for your categories:
-Pullovers
-Vnecks
-Sleeveless
-Extra Long
-Solid colors

Item # = Item Name > Keywords (keywords can also contain colors, where you bought them, something special that reminds you of the item, what it matches, etc)

for Location named Hanging
Hanging 1 = depending on how you want to list the items hung in your closet, you may only need 1 item in this location, and simply list the items, colors, ex: white sleeveless blouse, blue short sleeve with flowers wear with white pants, blue slacks long that needs to be worn with heels, blue slacks short, black jeans, etc.

for Location named Shelving:
Shelving 1 = Pullovers > summer pullovers, bottom shelf, section 1
Shelving 2 = Vnecks > summer vnecks, bottom shelf, section 2
Shelving 3 = Sleeveless > summer sleeveless, 2nd shelf, section 3
Shelving 4 = Extra Long > summer extra long, 2nd shelf, section 4
Shelving 5 = Solids > summer solid colors, top shelf, section 5
Shelving 6 = Prints > summer prints, top shelf, section 6

for Location named Boxed:
Boxed 1 = Pullovers > winter pullovers
Boxed 2 = Vnecks > winter vnecks
Boxed 3 = Sleeveless > winter sleeveless
Boxed 4 = Extra Long > winter extra long
Boxed 5 = Solid colors > winter solid colors
Boxed 6 = Prints > winter prints

You may also want a ‘Transition’ Location for transferring your winter items from boxes to hanging and shelving; or another physical location. It would be something like this, for instance, you have your summer clothing in your closet and you’re ready to transition the summer clothing to storage and move the winter clothing in to be more accessible during October-November time.
1. You would select all items in your Hanging location and conduct a Transfer Move to the Transition location.
2. Then select the winter items that you want to be hung in your closet, and conduct a Transfer Move to the Hanging location.
3. Then select the items you moved to the Transition location, and conduct a Transfer Move to the Boxed location you need them moved to.
4. Continue through the remaining locations to conduct Transfer Moves, until you have everything transitioned the way you need them for your convenience.

I hope this helps.

Thank you,
Janet Baker
The Paper Tiger Team
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Please give me some idea of the best way to deal with something like this as to a suggestion to whether or not I should have a number of databases maybe for each category example Tops

Any help that you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Every Thursday we go to the local farmer’s market for a variety of pea’s/beans (to put in the freezers);

On Wednesdays we do our regular grocery store shopping and buy a lot of seafood & meats,for my husband,(to be put in the freezers);

plus, every summer we boil several bushels of peanuts (to be put in the freezers).

All this has become a nightmare for me! I never know where anything is, just a general idea. The deep freezer is THE WORST. To access whatever is on the bottom, everything in it has to be removed. {“honey, do i have anymore cooked shrimp in the freezer?”} after i’ve hauled tons of frozen food out and peer into the frozen abyss i call out “no dear, no cooked shrimp in there. found some uncooked shrimp and two boston butts & a whole chicken i didn’t know we have though!” … then the tedious process of replacing all this heavy food back into the freezer. There’s been a couple of times some smaller items were overlooked and the next day i find them sitting out thawed and ruined. I shake my head in despair over the wasted money i’m throwing into the trashcan, muttering to myself “there has got to be a better way!”

So in addition to my high hopes of getting my papers under control with the Paper Tiger system, i have just as high hopes i can use the system to get these freezers under control (somewhat anyway …)
Thanks for ‘listening’ and wish me luck