When you find some irresistible printable online do you print it right away or wait until you need it? I had saved links to all sorts of goodies that I wanted to print, but didn't need at the time, but now most of them don't exist anymore. Either the entire site doesn't exist or they took the item off the site. Now I'm bummed.... Do you keep a file of items to use at some point in time? Or just wing it as you go?
If I am going to use something in the next month or two I print it when I find it. Otherwise I save the file into Dropbox so I can print it another time. I have learned the hard way that saving links doesn't work because things get moved or closed or whatever.
I usually print a week or two's at a time. When we first began homeschooling, I printed tons of stuff as I found it. I ended up with a huge file box of stuff that never got used. I do sometimes save the files to print later.
Free printables do come and go often, what I normally do is, save it to a thumb drive. Then I print it off of my thumb drive as I need it. If it's not a PDF (which most are) I do a print some thing ahead of time and keep them in a 3 ring binder. But that doesn't happen often...
Oooh, I like the thumb drive idea! I think I have a little one somewhere. I've also printed stuff ahead of time and then ended up not using it, so I hate to do that.
A lot of the files are pdf that I find online, and I save them into a printable folder on my desktop, which is then organized into sub folders for each subject. When I am doing a certain topic I just go to the folder, and print what I need from there.
I usually search as I'm needing so it gets printed right away.. I do have LOTS in my favorites that I will probably never use because I forget what I have.. I'm just not very organized. Something I need to work on..
I save everything. Seriously - I figured out I have over 100gigs of homeschool stuff saved on my external hard drive from all the years. I can homeschool the 6 year old for free based on what I have - at least through 3rd grade!! So now I am able to just search and find - but there is always more out there - LOL
Some things I print, some I save. If it's a PDF it's easy to save for later, if it's not I print it to a pdf file (I have Adobe but there are free pdf printer programs out there to download). I never expect to find something ever again when I find it online..lol
