organize my life

Living with less things that I don’t use, buying less groceries and eating them all, even if it means eating spaghetti and salmon for breakfast. now i’ll concentrate on organizing my time and leaving enough time for myself for exercise, nature, reading, writing, etc.

I really like having everything be clean and shiny, so I’m vowing from now on to use weekends for organizing/cleaning and studying, so as to maximize the benefits of things I’m going to need to do in my life. Wish me luck~

OK, spring is over for most people in the northern hemisphere, but I live in the northwoods, so it’s kind of just getting started here.

I’ve spent the past month or so deep-cleaning the entire house, and I’ve actually been keeping up with it for once. This is the longest that I’ve consistently lived in a clean space since I lived with my parents as a kid.

Of necessity, cleaning required a crap-ton of organizing.

My partner’s stuff mostly went into compact little piles in corners, pushed neatly out of the way (he’s a slob of monumental proportions).

So I’m putting a big ol’ check mark next to the physical environment aspect of my life for organization.

Talking to friends about how busy and tired we are in the last weeks, I was thinking about my recent situation comparing to how I was 3 or 4 months ago. Ok, I still busy and tired and it will be worse with the end of the semester. But I feel the things are much better. I can manage better my time and organize what I have to do in each free time I have – well, they aren’t free because when I’m not at work or at class, I have to study, laudry, sleep (less and less) and relax to keep my energies. I feel I have the things in control and I can keep it until my college vacations. My room is totally different of what it was for years. I applied there the rule of “each place to each thing, each thing always in your place”. I’m always finishing the total organization and I have a box full of things to sell or donate (what was trash have already gone away).

I can consider it as one of the reasons I’m very happy lately and gave me some life quality.

I have problems balancing the little things in life. I’m going to take the challenge to do the more important stuff in life. If you’re having the same problems as I am you should too!

I AM A LITLLE UMPUMTUAL AND LACY , SO I WANT TO DO THOSE THINGS.

I’m in a TPM crew in a tire factory and every action we do is about organizing something. We work with SMED, 5S, Kanban and many other tools and all of them are based in some kind of organization to improve the production in the factory.
Everytime I see myself aplying what I do at work in my personal things. I’m very better to manage my time, my room is getting more organized and I’m trying to get rid of many things I don’t use anymore. I can see how I can acumulate stuff I don’t need for years and for no reason.

my roommate came up with a great idea for me. she told me to buy some plastic tubs to put all my stuff in that i need to go through. i have worked on putting all my toys in one tub, photos in another etc… now i can just open a tub and start sorting stuff without it ending up all over the house and have a place to put it back until i have more time to sort. the simplest solutions are always the best!

oh my, what an emotional process to sort through your “stuff”; drawers and boxes of photos, memorabilia, old clothes a size too small, sundries you may need one day. I am down to the last six boxes that were first-in-last-out, located at the back of the basement storage area, representing the lot that I accumulated the most years back. The house is empty save a few pieces of staging furniture for it’s eventual sale. The garage is now tarmak for things going to the next residence, things going to the resale store and one table still to sell on craig’s list. The longer i live out of a small bag, a gym bag, a laptop and file bag and an oversized purse in and out of my car and the more often i sleep here and there (at the old house, in a friend’s guest room, at a new house) the more i realize that maybe i really need far less than i thought i did. what if i just kept weeding out my personal possessions? Keep a couple pans, a few plates, not 25 years of kitchen accumulation. I feel like without all these props around me, I could effectively just disappear, evaporate! Like the feeling I didn’t exist unless I had debt. Debt and things have legitimized my existance, what a sad state we have convinced ourselves of. If I had less stuff, I’d have more time and money and be able to work on my creative ideas more and interact in a non-hurried way with the family and friends I care about. This picture shows how I stuffed my house with things. This was the dining room that I made into a second office.

It’s how I’m calling these next day, beginning today!!!
I’m organizing my last papers at my work and the papers about it I have to do to college. Searching for another work too and a theme to my final paper at college I have to begin to write in July.
I have to organize the huge messy I have in my bedroom, including my papers. I have to separate what I need, what I don’t need anymore, what I can give to some classmate or what’s simply trash. I have to get rid of most of my unnecessary things and I have to be in a good day to do it. Maybe give most of my old toys and children books to my little cousins and some library. Sell or give the old clothes and book.
I have to get a new id card. Watch some movies and series to give the dvds I’ve borrowed back to my friends.
Start my walk program. Go with my brothers and mothers to some museums they don’t know yet. Visit my grandma and my aunt.
And, during all these things, keep my studies according to the class I’m taking during the week (and it’s the priority!!)