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 Keep things in chronological order so it’s easy to see what’s coming up, and to discard what’s out of date.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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Done!
Done – yea!
all done…the time left over was spent getting rid of the clutter collecting on the hall (mail) table
In our house it is the fridge. I’ve done it!
We already have those boxes for the kids in which they can collect stuff that they want to keep as memories.
That one was easy!
Done quite quickly 🙂
I’ve been avoiding that growing mountain of papers. Thanks for making me tackle it! Such a relief to see that counter space again. 🙂
done. I do this on a regular schedule so it doesn’t overwhelm me.
OK I think I have been posting completion of my tasks in the wrong place but I have done all five challenges and things are looking pretty good. I work and so the 5 minute challenges are about all I can handle right now but it is gratifying to have things looking better even with just little 5 minute blocks of time. Looking forward to tomorrow’s challenge AND to how great it’s going to be around here when the 30 days are up!
Done. This is something I’m good at keeping up with anyway! 🙂
done for today!
all done!
mission accomplished!
Done this one too!
thanks for a great challenge! done!
This is already done for me, but I will also work on it for my husband!
Another good one, thanks!!
Done …. really like the Idea of a memory box …. I have a small plastec hanging file box That I use when I sort Mail …. I open and file …. then when it comes to paying bills every thing is in one place …. when the bill gets paid it is either shredded or moved to the larger file cabinet
Done
Done. Thanks!
Done. Feels so great getting everything clean abd organized.