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 Keep things in chronological order so it’s easy to see what’s coming up, and to discard what’s out of date.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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better late than never. I decided on the frig. It was the easiest area. Cleaned off with only pictures now.
Completed
Fridge is cleared off. Only the necessities were put back on (calendar, notepad and several photos. It looks SOOOO bare. I’ve told the girls that I need some new masterpieces to cut down on all the whiteness!
Did yesterdays assignment last night no time to post
Just finished todays assignment
Things looking good
That was the easiest one so far for me. I did get rid of a bunch of papers though and it feels so good! I’m loving this. Bring on Day 6!
Recently did the fridge but had to tackle a HUGE pile on the counter. Always feels good to see it gone!
complete
Done Hoorah
Cleaning off my fridge door was an overdue task that took no time at all. I purposefully let go of several magnets so no one can attach coupons, menus, pictures etc. Thanks.
Done! Piece of cake….and when I was done, I had a piece of pie (Marion Berry , yum!)
Done
Done!
Day #5 Done!! Love it!
woooo-hooo. Done. It didn’t take very long, because I did most of it last week.
Task 5 done!
BTW: got my SON to consider his desk on this one!!
done! don’t really have a info center, but have a nasty collection of junk on the top of the fridge… it’s gone and what little is left is neat!
Done. put some items in the home mgt. binder, threw away some things and now ready to go.
Whoohoo! Complete! It was about time to get rid of all those little notes I leave myself to remind myself to do something, now if I can only remember to throw them away when the reminder is past due!
Done. The fridge/board part was easy for me, so I worked on the “end of the counter” pile.
I have also committed to putting my business office in order as we go along in the home this month, so I spent an hour in there today, as well!
Woohoo!