Saturday 16 June 2012

Passport dilemma solved!

Hi all! This is a quick post to show you how I have managed to fit my passport into my Personal sized Adelphi. For those of you who are familiar with the Adelphi, you know it has a flap pocket with a snap in the inner front cover and a zip pocket on the back cover. These are both lovely pockets, but too narrow for the passport-believe me, I've tried! I live right on the border between Canada and the US, and must have my passport with me to go to the US, which I do, on average, every other day. I have a battered old leather passport cover, but was getting tired of having so many books (passport, chequebook, wallet, Filofax) rattling around in my bag, and wanted to consolidate. It seemed like I was always digging around for that stupid passport. But I just couldn't find a spot for it in my Filofax.It was extremely vexing! It won't fit in the clear plastic sleeves, either. They're too skinny. Grrr!

Recently, I was reading a blog where the poster described how she used an hair elastic to attach her passport inside her pocket size Filo. She just ran the elastic around the back (spine) of the Filofax. Of course, the wheels started turning, and I wondered if I could do something similar with my personal Adelphi. I grabbed the passport, the Adelphi, and an old elastic I had in my desk. I planned on getting a nicer, prettier elastic if it actually worked. I opened my book, and it fell open to the back, where I had recently added one of the handy little pockets I ordered from Amazon. It is from the "Daytimer" line, and they come in a package of four. I wasn't really using it for anything special yet, so it was empty. I looked at my passport, looked at the pocket, and a little spring of hope erupted in my heart. The results are below...





Yessss! It freakin' fits! Perfectly! I couldn't believe it! They are called "Daytimer Portable Slash Pockets". I got the pastel ones (you are looking at the blue, there is also green, orange and purple in the pack) but now I see Amazon also carries bright, primary coloured ones that I might get. The bright ones look like they could be plastic, which would be more durable. The ones I ordered turned out to be a stiff cardboard. They are both very affordable, under $10.00 US. Sooo worth it! Don't you love it when things work out, with very little effort?!  Just goes to show that it is always a good idea to get, and hang onto, anything that will fit in our precious Filos. You never know when something will turn out to be just the right thing!

9 comments:

  1. Wow great idea, i'm in the UK so don't need to carry my passport around with me but I could find so many uses for those pockets, i'll have to see if I can find them online in the UK. Thanks :)

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    1. I think these are similar, Alison http://www.daytimer.co.uk/Organiser-Accessories/Folio-Size-File-Pockets---4-Assorted-Colours/87498/View_Front/MoreInfo.aspx (Just spent ages looking for them as I've seen them on another blog before and thought they looked great!)

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    2. Thanks for that, considered making them after seeing Gail's tutorial, but I can't be bothered feeling lazy at the moment, i'm off to check them out now :)

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  2. Ohhh I just made some of these and posted them on my blog, they are very easy to do and are so handy too.

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    1. I LOVE your tutorial! I'm going to try it this weekend-I'll let you know how it turns out! Also, I'm so glad you commented, because I had read your post on doing up a Filo for your hubby and was very inspired; I'm in the process of doing the same thing! I'm almost done, you can see what I've done so far in my newest post, but I'm going to put a video on youtube as well...

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    2. Awahh thanks Ms C. I will check it out. My hubby has just gone off to a job induction with Filofax in hand this morning. He looks very sophisticated with it. lol

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  3. Great idea! I like how it also conceals your passport from prying eyes, so only you know it's lurking back there!

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  4. I love this idea! I have several of those pockets and don't have a specific use for them as of yet. The next time I need my passport I will surely try it out!

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  5. I was travelling abroad last week and my passport fitted perfectly into the rear pocket in my personal Malden. I was trilled.

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