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 Keep things in chronological order so it’s easy to see what’s coming up, and to discard what’s out of date.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…This wasn’t to hard. I do this at least every other day and at work.
ah, love the memory box idea … or basket … but everytime I head to Michael’s, the boxes are sold out!
Done.
(and took a FULL grocery cart of “past life” clothes to a used kids/moms clothing store and a bag of kitchen stuff to Goodwill! Love the inspiration!)
ok, this was way better, and quicker than yesterday’s… the bathroom took me over half an hour! By the way, based on other people’s comments, some of you could have your own organizing blog and don’t need to be doing this daily with the rest of us slobs….
I did this last month – only two pieces to get rid of.
This was an easy one, I do this weekly.
. . . . and done 🙂
This was easy enough…..but bodes the question ‘Why don’t I do it weekly?’ I did this at my office this morning!
That was a tough one as I love all the pictures on my fridge but some were years old. Done
on it. i’m trying to match my office (outside job) with this too!!
completed.
done
Did the fridge, 3 magnetic boards and 2 dry-erase in 5 minutes! Now, I need to figure out what pictures to put back on the one near the entryway. Tks!
I love to keep paper so I still have a lot to shred.
better late than never i guess! Much neater.
My fridge is bare, I don’t like a lot of clutter on it, I don’t have a notice board for the same reason…BUT..my spot is on the cupboard tucked standing up right beside my big mixer..so I tackled that job and voila..I have a few days to get caught up on so this will be fun for me…
Done…been doing the box per child for awhile now…and actually went through them and got rid of lots of stuff 😉
already done…..
Done!
Done!
Oooh. I was DREADING this. BUT I’m now done – you wouldn’t believe how much cleaner the kitchen looks (or maybe you would). This is so motiviating in so many different ways! I feel like I couldn’t have done it without y’all!!