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 Keep things in chronological order so it’s easy to see what’s coming up, and to discard what’s out of date.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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So needed here. I classed this one as the fridge, pile beside the fridge and the stack on the end of the kitchen table. haha 😉
Yep – it’s done 🙂
Day 5 done
Done day 5
Did this one on day 5!
Done, yaye!
I played catchup this past weekend. Did a week of organizing tasks in 2 days…but feels SO good 🙂
Continuing my catch up plan…
Done! This area is a mess for us, but 5 minutes worth is better than nothing 🙂
DONE!!!
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AND…. I wish I’d done “before and after” pictures of all of this!
Done…. I’m exhausted! Do I get a prize for doing the most catching-up in one day? I had family here from 4/2 until this morning, so got behind. 🙂 Things sure are more organized now! Thanks! ~Michelle
My fridge is a magnet for newspaper articles I cut out and save—exercises I want to try, nutrition info, wise words, etc. Cleared it off! Only current stuff that I actually will do something about stays…..
Done
my fridge is officially empty and never again will there be anything on it! It looks so fresh and clean. I still need help in the “mail drop” area. We seem to drop our mail on the counter and then it just has this continuous pileup.
Done!
This ones a constant job that gets out of control easily. All done now and the bench fridge and notice board looks heaps better.