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 Keep things in chronological order so it’s easy to see what’s coming up, and to discard what’s out of date.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!
Leave Your Comment Below…
Please leave a comment below to say you’ve completed today’s task.
Till tomorrow!
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Completed this task – bench is cleared from papers as is the fridge and into a central spot – will load post on this over the week end !!
Missed the last couple of days because I have been busy with cleaning up the garden.
This task was an easy one, as it is only my son and I we don’t have a notice board in the house and I gave up putting stuff on the fridge a lone time ago because it looked untidy.
I have a small in tray on my desk for any bills or paperwork that needs to be completed and this is completed on a weekly basis.
I did it!!
Little late, but done! It actually only took me 5 minutes!
So hard to get rid of books! Your guidelines make it easier, though!
I have completed and commented on all 7 tasks this week. Thanks!
CD’s and DVD’s already organized. However, I had to take a lot of time evaluating the books. Longer than 5 minutes, but more than worth it!
done!
This one was easy for me, I keep this stuff pretty organized.
All Done!
My fridge was a mess. Thanks for the prompt.
Done 🙂
Alittle late but done
Done! 🙂
Oh! I did it! I did it!! I forgot the first few days, but plan to go back and catch up. (only 5 minutes, right!) But I was waiting for dinner and remembered i could do this while I was waiting!
I found a schedule of classes I wanted to take, except that it was from 2006 and the store is long since closed and gone! No reason to keep it any longer!
Thank you so much for this 30 day guide!!
Love the “notice board”
Sick yesterday – playing catch up today! Whew – Done!
Day late, but done and the fridge looks fantastic!
Done! (a day late, but it’s done!)
I had to think about this one first. I don’t have a ‘notice board,’ or an ‘information center,’ but I do put stuff on the frig. So, today, I did two things, the one for today and this one.
Done!