Who'd a Thunk It...

...that you could do this with a simple piece of sheet metal and magnets? I think I'll have to make an organization "station"  similar to THIS ( click on it)  minus the coat hooks in either the mudroom or the home school room.
This is what the mudroom looks like this:

But to the right of this picture there is an empty wall just waiting for some sort of "organizational" creative notion. It would probably be cheaper than the metal cork board you can find at IKEA. Ohhhhh I'm getting anxious to just start and put my mark on the house ;)