That's a really good idea

I think I'd forget it was there, LOL. I have a table in Google docs where i record such things, and have sent a copy to my painter too.

What a great idea!

Not only for current owners but if you sell your house you could let buyers know. So many times new owners of a house can’t figure out paint colors, say for touchups.

In our old house, because we were frequently touching up (see: 3 kids + 3 dogs), I poured paint for each room into a mason jar and wrote details on the lid with a Sharpie. They were all stored on a shelf in the basement.

Sueb, I did the same thing with extra cabinet paint. I even went so far as to vacuum seal the jar in a Food Saver bag. When I finally needed to use it, it had dried out. I was so bummed.

In the rest of the video, she notes that she uses a touch-up paint pen and a touch-up cup for storing paint. I found the ones she uses on AMZ.

ETA: a blogger I follow is touting the SlobProof Touch-up Pen today. She says the paint will keep for 7 years in one of the pens!

When DD and DSIL bought their first house, his mom and I went down to help them get it ready for move-in. The previous owners had saved the paints. I got the bucket that I thought matched the MBR and started doing touch-up. Nope. Close but not a match. Looked like the room had the pox when I got through dabbing the wrong color paint all over it. I called a painter to come repaint the room! It would have been nice if they had labeled the cans or somehow indicated which room was painted which color.

I recall seeing that tip about using the backs of switchplates from a long time ago - maybe in Yankee magazine?

Everything old is new again 😉

Clever idea and helpful since I'm in the middle of painting my kitchen! Another lead painter here :)

Haha - I keep reading 'lead' with a long E as the metal and thinking about lead paint 😁

Been using this trick since the 80"s.

In our subdivision all homes have the exterior paint color scheme with the SW stock numbers printed out on a big sticker that is on the inside door of the breaker box in the garage. Since you can’t change the colors (without permission and unless you use a scheme originally meant for your neighborhood and house plan) it is very handy to have the information there for painters.