organize

YES!!!

It’s something I’ve been wanting to do forever, and just… haven’t done. I get very caught up in school and work. But the semester is ending, so after that I will have about a week to take care of it. I think I’ll be putting it up as a personal challenge.

Penalty? I’ll feel bad for leaving my boyfriend to live in my mess for two months without me. If anyone has a sufficient punishment to go along with guilt, do let me know :P

The way I’ve finally done this is to have 3 rules:

1. No tolerance for undone laundry

2. No tolerance for undone dishes

3. No tolerance for trash anywhere

By following these three rules, time has been freed to organize, and it actually has been a pleasurable task because everything in general “felt clean”. I think in the past, I was too bogged down with getting the basics down, and couldn’t progress. Being organized gives me time to do so much more than I used to put off doing—before I figured out this rather simple guideline!

I am then going to go to a organizer store like OrganizeWorld . If I am choosing to organize a kitchen drawer during the specific day (I’m going to do all this in baby steps), I will do step one – purge – then decide which kitchen organizers to get.

I already know I’m getting these kitchen organizers: Spice Drawer Organizer , Kitchen Cabinet Corner Shelf Organizer , and the Expandable Kitchen Drawer Organizer .

I’m going to go room-by-room and get rid of all the crap that I haven’t used in a least 6 months. Actually, I’ll go one drawer and one cabinet at a time, because this is going to suck.

I clean up my room and organize undernearth my sinks and my laundry room and hope that it’ll stay like that…

I’ve been working on organizing the kitchen all day. I should be done sometime tonight.

Entry
Balcony
Living room
Dining room
Guest bathroom
Son’s bathroom

Really, I’m very organized and a neat freak, but much less so than I used to be. Over the past two years, I’ve really fallen behind on keeping anything organized. I don’t want to be OCD, but, right now, I have a lot of things that should be tossed and A LOT of things that I want to organize, properly.

SO. I’m not the cluttery kind of gal. When I lived with my parents I fit perfectly into one bedroom.

Now that I have my own place – With one bedroom, a living room, a kitchen and my own bathroom, I SUDDENLY DON’T FIT!

I suppose I need to organize better. Damn it.

• Buy hanging files for my file cabinet and have organized folders for things such as ‘comcast’ or ‘bank accounts’ instead of just throwing everything into one.
• Go through papers to dispose of what I don’t need.
• I don’t have much room to have a craft area, but if i can somehow organize all my crafting things into one spot or box that would free up some space.
• I want to turn my desk into a nice place to write instead of a crazy clutter collection.

EDIT

• and I need to make school binders for this year. To keep my French in one and my physics in another.