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 Keep things in chronological order so it’s easy to see what’s coming up, and to discard what’s out of date.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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Day 5 done!!!!!!
All organized! Ready for next day’s challenge! 🙂
I have a virtually empty notice board now – missed out on some treats because vouchers were hidden so my lesson learned !
Done!
Clutter on fridge easy – not sure if I shouldn’t discard fridge though!
Finis – 🙂
This one was definitely a challenge, but we got there!
Yeah, another one down!
Since there is only my husband and I, there wasn’t much on it. But it is clean now anyway.
Notice board was easy for me, I try to keep it current weekly. I only have a few magnets and 1 weight watchers paper on the fridge.
Done!
A while back I bought a kid’s art organizer and it has sat empty in the packaging since I bought it! Today I finally sorted through all of the art work we have on the fridge and cork board in the office and picked a couple to keep out and sorted the rest away. I also organized my home management binder and got rid of everything that I no longer needed in there. Another accomplishing day! Thanks!
Done! – Sort of. I now have a pile my husband has to go thru in order for the area to be truly organized. But at least, everything else is organized, and I’m thinking of buying a pretty box to put all hubbies stuff in, so at least it will look nice until he actually gets around to cleaning up the papers!
Done. Looks better.
Done, and relatively easy (no major noticeboard to speak of, just making sure the fridge door wasn’t loaded with old stuff).
Actually I did the fridge last week . . . so I tackled the “desk” (or may I say mess) by the phone. Looks so nice and neat now — and the fridge still looks good.
SO great to get rid of those piles of paper! Love the idea of a memory box too!
YAY! Finally finished, today’s and yesterdays organization tasks. Whew, time to grab a snack.
I don’t have kids but still end up with piles of stuff! I got my household binder in order so I can say DONE
Day 5 All Done