be more organized

Creating October mini-goals spawned a fervor to attempt my impossible: becoming an organized person. So here we go!

1. Clean out/organize hall closet
2. Clean out/organize front closet
3. Do something – anything! – with my pile of fitness/health papers
4. Create a cookbook from all the recipes I printed out
5. Toss magazines a year old or more
6. Donate old video games
7. Clean out/organize drawers in bedroom

1. Two 1” ring binders
2. 1 box sheet protectors (for recipe book)
3. Rolling file cabinet for office and hanging folders

1. Cute little boxes
2. Shelves
3. Drawer organizer

Born under the sign of Aquarius, I am naturally and hopelessly unorganized. I can’t even keep track of movie tickets for five minutes.

This obviously has been an ongoing struggle of mine, but I’ve had a lifelong fortune of having organizing wonders around me (my mom and sister). I’m also lucky to have attracted super pro organizer like my fiance. As long as he’s in my life, I will be fine!

This doesn’t mean that I can’t make progress in other areas, however. While there’s a part of my brain that just malfunctions in the maintenance of organization, there’s still little things I can work on that’s fool-proof. Labeling vacation pictures, for instance. Sort my clothes by color and sleeve length. Group my shoes in color. Keep a grocery list. These are things I can manage but keeping the bills scanned and in order in the computer? I need more than luck for that big task.

For now, however, I tackle the labeling and sorting of our vacation pictures from 2006. It’s a bit of a daunting task being that we take a vacation about every 6 weeks or so, but I can’t say I couldn’t do it unless I try it first!

Good luck to moi.