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 Keep things in chronological order so it’s easy to see what’s coming up, and to discard what’s out of date.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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Done this a few days ago……
Well… we have not had an information center since we moved into our house in September. So I rehung our cork board and gathered up every bit of important reminders that have been stuck on the mirror, or on the fridge. Then I cleaned off the rest of the fridge. DONE!
Done!! My kids are still fairly young, so not alot schedules, etc. to go through. My hubby on the other hand…I separate his “stuff” into a pile, and needless to say that gets way out of control! Fortunately, I made him go through it just last week as we were having company. 🙂 Perfect timing!
Removed all the old stuff, now for some boxes for the keepsakes.
Done! It’s just amazing how many useless stuff was there… It was more like clutter-storage than information centre 🙂
Never again!
done
PHEW…my information center is a small end table in the living room, and it has gotten WAY out of hand!!! Still working on it (MUCH more than 5 minutes, but that’s okay ’cause I needed this push to get it done =) ~ Hope to have it completed by dinnertime, at the latest!
Done! I finally got rid of that stack of papers that was accumulating on my kitchen counter. I kept meaning to organize it, but this gave me the incentive. Most of it went into the shredder or the recycled paper bin. Now I’m determined to KEEP the counter clean & free of papers!
Completed! We don’t have a board and we already keep things in a memory boxes.
tada done!!!
Easy and finished!
Done! Looks great – wonder how long I can keep it like this! It seems so bare!
Done less than fives minutes. Now off to buy some keepsake boxes.
This I had actually done yesterday, so there wasn’t too much to contend with today. Task complete!
done!
All done!
done and no more piles looks nice!
Cleared off the fridge!
Great minds think alike =) I just purchased 3 boxes last week for this purpose. The only problem is that they were creating their own little towering pile…=/ Today’s task helped me use them and feel so much more on top of things!
not too hard!