get organised

good to give myself a reminder on this as I’m generally doing pretty good with regular decluttering these days. Financed are organised, we’ve finally got more storage and the utility room and spare room have been gutted. Just need to actually spend a bit more time and money furnishing the place. go me, I’m chuffed with myself!

Just looked at my list and realised that I’ve got a whole Sunday ahead of me where I can do some practical things that will make me happy. sooo:

- tackle the washing mountain so what i wear to work this week is a conscious decision not just what’s clean
- make my kitchen & bathrooms sparkle
- do the household spreadsheet I’ve been banging on about for months
- bake a cake and take it up to my parents-in-law who are in the middle of decorating
- make a fabulous dinner for Mr Weehector who’s at work today

Who thought household tasks could get me so excited?

I’m sooo pleased with myself.
Two weekends ago, I achieved:
- a clothes audit > 3 full black bin bags to Cancer Research
- 3 runs to the local tip with recycling stuff, old boxes, furniture
- reorganisation of my airing cupboard and the cupboard under the stairs (so big, Harry Potter could have been living there and we wouldn’t have known)
- I came home after work two days later and my husband and father in law had shelved and hung lots of hooks in the cupboard so I can now see all my shoes laid out neatly and we have Ikea boxes neatly stacked and containing all the camping stuff, garden stuff, nieces’s toys, etc

Woo, hoo – it feels good!

Its ironic really that I’m a compulsive list maker – but I write nice lists like holiday destinations and clothes I’d like to buy rather than the ‘to do’ list I should be writing (MOT car before go to jail, sign up for internet banking before they take another £86 off me because I’m too lazy to transfer funds and go £14 into overdraft for a week, etc).

I get the feeling that of all my goals this is the ones that could be the key to unlocking several others…

1. better time management at work > better project manager > promotion. I can be as ‘strategic’ as I like but if its not on time and on budget, I’m screwed.

2. organise my financial arrangements > happier/lower blood pressure as I want to kill the bank manager just now over that £86. Burn in hell, ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND

3. do the goddamn washing & ironing > hello, capsule wardrobe, you might be under the washing mountain if only I could see you

4. keep a spreadsheet of all the household outgoings and when the renewals are due – the house could burn down and we’d be homeless for all I know.

So small steps are required for Weehector as my brain is so cluttered that I’m overwhelmed and don’t really know where to start without taking a week off work. My new motto is going to be ‘a drawer a day will keep the anxiety at bay’. Kitchen drawers, watch out, you’re first.