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 Keep things in chronological order so it’s easy to see what’s coming up, and to discard what’s out of date.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 liked this one, they have been on the board so long I stopped seeing them. It was a great day remembering why they were up. Off to the memory box they went and still managed some garbage too!
For the first time since this started, this only took 5 minutes. I have done it fairly recently so there wasn’t much to throw out. I love committing to doing at least one clean-up task per day, though. Perhaps doing it for 30 days will instill the habit to continue.
This is a biggie for me. With 5 kids, a husband who has a home office, two jobs (I also have a home office and teach nursing at a college), plus being in graduate school full time, this is an area is always a disaster. What seemed to put me over the top was last month when we pulled our 6th grader out of public school to do charter school. Much of her work needs printed out and ALL my books for my program are ebooks and I need to print the book excerpts and research articles out! This may take me more than one day to finish this and get organized in this area, but it is definitely on target!
did this at work too…I feel so much better.
Done!! Yeah!!
Done!
I am loving how easy all these mini-tasks are! This one is done!
Done! I don’t have a notice board but my desk is a catch-all! So I cleaned it up 🙂
Done! This is one I already do on a constant basis.
Completed 😉
This area was pretty clean! I swear by calendars with pockets on the bottom. When a notice comes home from school we place the date on the calendar then fold the notice and mark the date in the upper left corner and place in in the pocket in chrono. order so that we can reference the original when needed. Very handy!
Not too bad today. All finished.
Finished. One thing I did with the kids art is I put a hanging wire across one end of a wall and hang up their artwork for awhile. I also take pictures of it and have put it on a CD. I only keep those really special pieces and this is helping keep the clutter down.
I just recently filed everything, and cleared up any random bits before company this past weekend, so I went through a household binder and tossed a few things that were no longer needed.
Nothing on fridge. daytimer has all info. Paper piles in office only. That is area to tackle!!
I don’t keep anything on my refrigerator, but I do pile papers (notices and other stuff). I had piled the piles into a box a couple of days ago, so that’s what I sorted and put away—what a job, but it’s done!! Thanks for the challenge!
the chronological sorting & memory boxes are awesome ideas …found it practical & useful.
Nice and tidy now. I had some stuff dating way back and pinned on top of each other. Can’t wait for the next one.
Done. I didn’t have much there either!
5th Day ~ accomplished! Easiest of all! Yahoo!