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Welcome back to 30 Days To An Organized Home (also known as the 30-Day Organize-athon)!
Today and tomorrow we’re going to prepare for the end of the 30-Day Organize-athon by making two incredibly important organizing mindset shifts.
They will help you to preserve the organizing gains you’ve made over the past month – for life!
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Our group responses are as follows:
Adopt OCI-OGO in your life. This stands for One Comes In – One Goes Out: every time something new comes into your home, car, handbag, briefcase, closet or life – something old goes out.
Instead of tossing the item out – repurpose & find another use.
Resell safe toys at a local consignment shop
Read your favorite magazines online. Only purchase magazines that are of interest to you.
Outdated computer books sell to a collector, or donate to local library, local book club or schools/colleges.
Remember make up have a shelf life. Check the expiration dates. Discard out of date make up.
Accept a gift. If you can’t use it or don’t love, re-gift the item.
When you buy a kitchen gadget or utensil, you donate or discard at least one old one. Depends on the utensil i.e. two coffee makers keep one for backup
Old blue jeans can be made into backpacks. Cut the legs off; stitch shut; use the legs to make the straps & sew them on. To close use rope or a belt through the belt loops. Use pockets for small items.
So, I have bought lots of new school clothes for the kids- now I am slowly removing items of clothing from thier summer wardrobes- I can’t do it all at once otherwise they will be wearing thier new clothes and that may be a little hot. But what I did do is put the donation bags in my car -and tomorrow after work will be dropping it off at the Salvation Army.
You know when you rent a condo when you go on vacation- It has 8 plates, 8 folks, 1 blender, a small amount of only necessary pans- It’s beautiful. My house– 9 plates, 20 forks, 2 blenders, too many pans. I love the feeling of a rented condo and would like my home to be like that. That’s what I will strive for.
Our group responses are: When you buy a new item of clothing, you donate or discard an old one from your closet. When you buy new shoes, you donate or discard an old pair. Read magazines online and save the issue or articles to your computer. When you buy a new book, DVD or CD, you donate an old one to the library or to a friend unless it’s a first edition. When you file your latest statements or papers, you discard, archive or shred out-of-date papers from your files.
When you buy a new cosmetic, you toss out an old one when expired. When you receive a gift, you find something you no longer use or love and give that away. When you buy a kitchen gadget or utensil donate them. Except we would keep grinder.
I’m trying to make specific places for things, a bit like your hanger idea, so as OCI it has to go in the gap or OFO, just as a reminder. Lisa I’m behind too, the important thing I think is progress, would that laundry be any better if you hadn’t started?
I’m so far behind. I don’t think the house looks much better than the day I started (except the laundry room). 🙁 I guess it didn’t work for me this time. Disappointing since the goal planning one was such a life changer. Oh, well. Maybe I don’t have the organization DNA.