Today we spent the day doing some cleaning around the house. I focused on the paper clutter under the cleaning plan that I'm following. As I may have posted yesterday, I'm not planning on following the 40 week plan over 40 actual weeks because I'd like the house to be clean before that. I'm going to try to abridge the plan to make it through a little faster. I don't know how fast, it depends on each step, but we'll see what happens. Anyway.. here's the plan that I'm following.. https://organize365.com/organize-365-podcast/ I'm new with listening to podcasts, but I started with podcast #1 and am going from there. I came up with a total of 6 Sunday baskets!!
I know they're not all "baskets" but I just used whatever was handy. I didn't get through all of them today because I was playing single parent while hubby was at the shop all day, but I did get through 3 of them! I did a quick sort - his, mine, kids, and trash piles. Then a more thorough where I went back through all my stuff and opened it and decided if it was keep, shred, or recycle. If it was keep, I had to decide where it was going to go or what I was going to do with it and put it in the appropriate file/pile. Turns out most of the stuff I went through was either shred or recycle. I think that's what I'm going to find when I go through the rest of the stuff, which I'm hoping to do tomorrow.
Breaking the cleaning down into these smaller manageable pieces is really helping me. Normally when I work on this stuff, my anxiety gets to me and drives me crazy because I get too overwhelmed and I need to walk away. But so far this is working!!
There is another podcast I found that is breaking down organization into little pieces, and I'm working that into my routine too. It builds on itself. It started with the first night - spend a couple minutes just picking up the bathroom before going to bed. Put everything in the bathroom away where it goes, wipe down the sink/counters, pick up stuff on the floor. That way in the morning the bathroom is clean when you go in there. Now they added on Step 2 - pick up and put away 5 things before you go to bed. Just 5 things you see sitting out that aren't where they belong, and put them away.
I talked to a friend of mine today who I had lost touch with for a while and has now moved back to the area. She is a personal trainer and I was asking for some advice because I'm getting desperate now that I've been diagnosed at pre-diabetic and have osteoarthritis in my knee. I was doing my workout today - Hip Hop Abs - when the 2 oldest kids decided they had to start fighting and no one wanted to watch my Monkey, so I had to quit halfway through. It's really grating on me when they have to fight like that ALL the time. She only has 2 days of school left, so I'm sure they're going to be fighting A LOT....
