Getting my house in order

[cjsmith]

Lent reminds non-Catholic me of the powerful idea of making a change for a finite period of time. Hat tip to mactavish for mentioning the idea of taking on a discipline.

Thirty minutes per day on any of (or any combination of) the following tasks:

• House cleanup (doing dishes, putting books and papers and clothes away, what the cat did, fridge purge)
• Organization (finding places for things, filing papers properly, getting photos into albums)
• Financial organization (set up a 2005 Roth IRA, do 2005 taxes, update my will, Quicken, etc)
• Online organization (get rid of the old e-mail address!)
• Decluttering (papers, clothing, kitchen junk, the garage, jigsaw puzzles)
• Minor improvements (replanting flowers, finishing the printer table, finishing a shirt I'm making)

By the end of this I'll know which of these tasks I use to put off others. I suspect I'll also have a place that's halfway nice to live in.

Comments

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

it's the piles and piles of paper lying around various parts of the house that i'm hoping to make a dent in

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Paper is the hardest, per unit volume, isn't it? Each piece or small set is a separate entity to be dealt with individually.

Unless you're planning to torch the lot. Got a fireplace? ;-)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

oh, the temptation :)