become organized

Easier said than done…...

There just aren’t enough hours in a day.

BUT I am working on pinpointing the few major things to focus on first. And trying to get rid of the feeling that if I don’t fit everything into one day, I won’t be able to do it at all…...because obviously I’m not doing it anyhow.

I just took a good share of my first list off…..This seems to be a good tool to ‘get things done’ on a weekly basis, so I’m assigning some of the bigger projects to dreams to look forward to ‘someday’.

As part of becoming organized I’ve come to the realization that it’s not that I won’t be able to do this or that if I don’t think about them for a while BUT that I just plain can’t do everything Right Now.

So the question is ‘What are the most important things right now?’ And what are the things that are within my reach this summer?

this will happen when i move out of my parents house, its kinda hard to have to share a basement and keep everything clean with a kid and all this crap!!!!!! ugh ready to move

I’m tackling the kitchen now. I’m trying to go room to room, organizing. I feel bad because I know there are things I should throw away to help me be organized that I just don’t want to. I’m trying to find places to put these things that don’t make more clutter, but I’ve vowed if I can’t, then they will find a sad home in the trash or a new life at the thrift store.

I am the most unorganized person in the world. My house is the clutter capitol of the world. I NEED to change this since I’ll be living on my own soon…

Did a MAJOR clean up over the holidays and fully organised, room, desk, pantry and car, now jst have to live this way for a little bit longer and I think I can say I have achieved this goal!

Have Cleaned out my car and its so pretty, am half way through my room
Before the end of the holidays I want to:
Clean out my pantry
Finish my room
Clean out my desk
Get all my notes organised

This will stand me in good stead to start the new semester

Completely redid the pantry and cleaned out the entire garage. I am almost there. It is so calming and stress reducing. Do it!!!

I finally hired a professional organizer, and WOW did it turn me around. I’ve been working with her for 2 months and now I actually take pride in striving to keep my place organized. It isn’t perfect yet, but at this point I am mostly working on sorting through the old piles of stuff I’ve accumulated over time that sit in my bedroom. She helped me determine a good system for sorting. Now the living room, entryway and kitchen all look pretty darn decent!

I’ll share with you 2 things she’s helped me do, under the umbrella of “starting new habits for organization” rather than the tendency to do nothing/be a slob. First off, you need a place for everything (and thus “everything in its place”.) I had this going for some things already.
1. When I come home I set a timer for 12 minutes. 2 to visit the bathroom and 10 to put away everything I’ve brought in the door with me. That may include washing tupperware from lunch and sorting the mail, or starting to empty a suitcase. If I’ve put it all away and the timer hasn’t rang, I put away other stuff around the apartment.
2. My kitchen counter always got covered in receipts, papers, plastic bags and other junk. One day when my organizer was here I cleaned off the whole counter. The only thing without a “place” were the receipts- I just didn’t know what to do with them. She suggested I use a small accordion folder I had (that was already empty). I place my receipts in order by month, and can always recycle them after I’ve gotten my credit card bill for that month. It turns out receipts don’t need to be kept longer than that unless they’re for tax purposes or if you may want to return the item purchased, and they don’t ever need to be shredded unless your whole credit card # is on them. Generally they only have the last 4 digits and that’s ok to put in the recycling.
So now I put the receipts in there and everything else in its place… and my kitchen counter has been clean ever since!!

Years ago this would have been a simple task for me…but add 4 kids into the mix and my house can get really crazy. Right now I am looking for the perfect solution to organizing my computer room/kids play room/sewing and scrapbooking room…yeah this room has a lot going on and isn’t really that large.