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 Keep things in chronological order so it’s easy to see what’s coming up, and to discard what’s out of date.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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Please leave a comment below to say you’ve completed today’s task.
Till tomorrow!
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I didn’t even realize I had one of these ….imagine my suprise to discover 3 …..!!!……The foyer& kitchen ones are now amalgamated with the one on my desktop…..relevant and neat ……Great way to start a day !
Done!
Done! 🙂
Had to adapt this one. I live alone – have one small whiteboard in the kitchen which has a smiley face on it – I clean it daily. My fridge is built in so no room for magnets.
I used the time to do a quick tidy of my in tray on my desk, and the inside of my beautiful Edwardian mahogany bureau – still a useful piece of furniture and cheaper than buying the equivalent flat pack from IKEA.
BTW this has inspired me to do a few other organizing tasks around the house!!! i am such an unorganized hoarder its scary. Thanks for getting me motivated. My husband thanks you too.
Done!
Got it done! even got rid of quite a few “store” magnets that are from towns I lived in years ago. Why did I keep them and put them back on the fridge when we moved????
great… some pictures on the fridge were 3 yrs old….time to put away…
done
Done! And I was surprised that of all the coupons I had on the bulletin board, none were expired! (a couple expire next week though…so this exercise brought them to mind)
I like the idea of chronological order. Not being a ‘born organized’ person, I hadn’t thought of that!
Thanks!
That is one place that stays pretty organized for me!
Done! Didn’t take long at all!
This one didn’t even take five minutes…(I did this yesterday when I couldn’t stand it any longer!) I LOVE the idea of a memory box.
It didn’t even take me 5 minutes on this one. I think I will buy some memory boxes for the family!
This one was pretty easy…it’s only me and DH now so not much gets put there. I was able to get rid of some old calendars and out dated notices. Even wiped down the fridge during the 5 minutes.
How quick was that!
Done, and I bought some new corkboard squares to hang on the wall rather than having everything cluttering the table surfaces.
I will be completing this once I get back from working out this morning.. it’s so funny that this was the organization day for the hub of the house… I was planning on doing this already… helps me get motivated to actually tackle it
Took me a little longer than 5 minutes- but it was totally worth it!
Completed. I did this a few weeks ago when I realized there was to much paper laying around the house.