Welcome to the 30-Day Organize-athon!
In today’s 5 minutes we’re going to organize your noticeboard or household information area.
Inhale: clarity, freedom, order; exhale: chaos! Now let’s start.
Day 5: Organize Your Noticeboard
Step 1: Remove all the invitations, photos, kids’ artwork, bills, school notices, paperwork and random stuff from your noticeboard, fridge door or towering pile on the kitchen counter.
Step 2: Quickly pick out only the most current, inspiring or useful items.
Step 3: Place these items neatly and in chronological order on the noticeboard or fridge (avoid piles – out of sight and into oblivion). Keep things in chronological order so it’s easy to see what’s coming up, and to discard what’s out of date.
Step 4: From the remaining items, put anything you really want to keep (really?) in a memory box (see below).
Step 5: As for everything else – shred, toss or recycle.
And you’re done!
Got an Extra 5 Minutes?
Create some memory boxes:
- Find (or buy later) some attractive boxes – one for each family member.
- Label each box with the person’s name.
- Place the boxes in each person’s room, or on a shelf in the family room or study – wherever is most tidy, practical and appealing.
- Use these boxes as a neat holding place for kids’ artwork, photos, keepsakes and other items you can’t yet (yet!) bring yourself to throw away. As a box gets full, you’ll be automatically prompted to throw out older items.
Now don’t you feel a lot more organized?
The 30-Day Organize-athon Mantra
Move fast. Don’t overthink. Let it go!
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Please leave a comment below to say you’ve completed today’s task.
Till tomorrow!
[Image by aussiegall]
Oh my, you must have peeked in my windows! Doing it at work and home!
Done! I’ve been keeping up pretty well in this area!
I’m a little late on this one due to sick kids! Anyway, I cleared the junk piles and threw away some stuff from the fridge.
I have been finding other jobs to do instead of this one all day! It IS now completed but for some reason getting started on the papers pile was not something I wanted to do. I DID wash all the mats in the house, and tidy my tupperware while I was avoiding this task though :o)
Done!
This is one I need to stay on top of better.
done! loved this one – I’m usually pretty organized, but things just start to pile up!
Done!
With you on this one Suzanne, easy done . The office paper piles are a whole other ballgame.
Done.
done on a regular basis… our message board is in a highly visible area so i have to keep it “thinned out” so it doesn’t make the kitchen look junky.
Done!
This is going to be upgraded to a weekly task.
I completed today’s task and feel a lot more organized 🙂
That’s it all done now
All done! Great way to sort my board!
Awesome. Can’t wait to see what’s tomorrow!
I was able to get rid of some out of date stuff that had just been overlooked. I had a big pile of paperwork to shred. Feels good!
Done under the wire! Watching election returns…..
Thanks for putting a fairly easy and non-threatening item on the list. The closet and bathroom cabinets were daunting, but I did it. The fridge door was a breeze after those!
Actually I completed this today before I’d read your blog saying it was the project of the day.