Welcome to the 30-Day Organize-athon!
In today’s 5 minutes we’re going to organize your noticeboard or household information area.
Inhale: clarity, freedom, order; exhale: chaos! Now let’s start.
Day 5: Organize Your Noticeboard
Step 1: Remove all the invitations, photos, kids’ artwork, bills, school notices, paperwork and random stuff from your noticeboard, fridge door or towering pile on the kitchen counter.
Step 2: Quickly pick out only the most current, inspiring or useful items.
Step 3: Place these items neatly and in chronological order on the noticeboard or fridge (avoid piles – out of sight and into oblivion). Keep things in chronological order so it’s easy to see what’s coming up, and to discard what’s out of date.
Step 4: From the remaining items, put anything you really want to keep (really?) in a memory box (see below).
Step 5: As for everything else – shred, toss or recycle.
And you’re done!
Got an Extra 5 Minutes?
Create some memory boxes:
- Find (or buy later) some attractive boxes – one for each family member.
- Label each box with the person’s name.
- Place the boxes in each person’s room, or on a shelf in the family room or study – wherever is most tidy, practical and appealing.
- Use these boxes as a neat holding place for kids’ artwork, photos, keepsakes and other items you can’t yet (yet!) bring yourself to throw away. As a box gets full, you’ll be automatically prompted to throw out older items.
Now don’t you feel a lot more organized?
The 30-Day Organize-athon Mantra
Move fast. Don’t overthink. Let it go!
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Till tomorrow!
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Completed!!!!
done and dusted
is it cheating that all we really have is a dry erase board with my weekly schedule for work, working out, social, kids’ stuff & dinner? i’m not a paper person! My grandmother used to always say paper piles created roaches (I have no idea) and that stuck with me so I have been huge about throwing paper away…shredding is my fave thing to do!
Done! Easy for me as I currently don’t have much of a family or household information center. But….I pulled out some lovely pastel “in” boxes that I’ve had for some time now and hadn’t decided how or where to use….and labeled those with family members’ names. Here will go mail as soon as it is brought in- I can sort it immediately and put it in the appropriate in box. All other information items, paperwork, etc. that is brought into the house can be sorted here and contained for a while, while each family member makes a decision regarding their own paperwork.
Hi
All done
Things filed int he filing cabinet that should have been put there long ago
Bag of rubbish in the bin from there too
You can now actually see our “round tu it ” now
Wow there were things on there from 2 and 3 years ago
Blog to be updated soon
Too sick last night to do the task but being an Aussie we have a few hours extra the next day to complete the task lol
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Luv Deb
No board on frig, but do have a file holder to collect things. Getting all Campbell’s points neatly cut, so I can send them to school. Tossed a few other bits of paper. You must have took a glance at my home.
I don’t have a board and my fridge doesn’t take magnebts which I’m sure is a blessing.
Ok done . Hope ii didn” throw out to much art work..
Done. I keep up with this on a regular basis so this one did not hurt too much.
Done.
Beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration!
Done!
Oh, goodness! 5 minutes was not enough. I know I have a hard time with the paperwork most of all. It is clean, but know I need to keep it under control. Took about 12 of the 5 minute timers ;( Hopefully it wont get that bad again. Looks great!
This is a never ending task for me. I hate paper, but never know what to do with it all. My worst!
Done, as much as possible in 5 minutes for this disaster anyway!
Done
Sorted out my pile by the telephone. I like the idea of the box I often cut interesting quotes from the newspaper. I could put these in a keepsake box instead of having scraps of paper and post its lying around
I’m all done with this one!
Consider it done! I SOOO love the memory box idea as well! Going to get one for each of my fam and I already know where I am going to put them. EXCITED!!! ;D
Completed – did not realize that removing everything from the fridge would give me such a good feeling,,,,,,