Happy Monday, everyone! I thought I would pop in with a progress update on my first challenge. If you recall from my last post, these are the items I want to focus on in the next two weeks.
Daily Household Routines
On the Organization and Decluttering front, I feel like I am doing well. The last box of Christmas decorations is packed and waiting on the back porch for when J can help me take it to the storage shed since it is so heavy. I love decorating for the holidays, but I also love the sense of space and austerity that comes after all the decorations are put away again. It seems to go with the austere landscape outside. I also finished item #3 this weekend. Honestly, it was a good exercise to go through the cedar chest just to remind myself of what was in it. I did find a few things that I decided not to keep and there were a couple of books that I relocated to the bookshelf. And, I found some photos that needed to be included in what I do for item #2. I also added some handmade items from when I was a baby that I had found when going through the toy chest. For item #4, I actually cleared out several boxes and items from the storage shed this weekend. The good news is that some of them are going straight to the trash. One box contained a combination of cookbooks and leather-bound classics. Another only held a handful of framed family pictures that I plan to hang in our hallway in the family picture gallery I have created. J and I did take some items to the thrift store to donate this weekend (a bag of clothes, a small round table, and a box of knick knacks). I have some other items set aside for donation that my mom and her cousin want to look through first, so I plan to meet with her some time this week to pass those on and I've given instructions to donate anything they don't want so none of it comes back to me.
Daily Household Routines
- Get up with the alarm.
- Make the bed every morning.
- Establish breakfast menus.
- Bathe or shower at night.
- Plan my clothes for the next day.
- Go to bed by 9:00 pm, 9:30 at the latest.
Organization & Decluttering
- Finish putting away the Christmas decorations.
- Sort and organize photos into albums and put into wooden toy chest.
- Clean out and organize cedar chest.
- Bring a box of books from the storage shed to sort through.
- Take items to local women's shelter thrift store to donate.
- Organize the exercise equipment.
On the Organization and Decluttering front, I feel like I am doing well. The last box of Christmas decorations is packed and waiting on the back porch for when J can help me take it to the storage shed since it is so heavy. I love decorating for the holidays, but I also love the sense of space and austerity that comes after all the decorations are put away again. It seems to go with the austere landscape outside. I also finished item #3 this weekend. Honestly, it was a good exercise to go through the cedar chest just to remind myself of what was in it. I did find a few things that I decided not to keep and there were a couple of books that I relocated to the bookshelf. And, I found some photos that needed to be included in what I do for item #2. I also added some handmade items from when I was a baby that I had found when going through the toy chest. For item #4, I actually cleared out several boxes and items from the storage shed this weekend. The good news is that some of them are going straight to the trash. One box contained a combination of cookbooks and leather-bound classics. Another only held a handful of framed family pictures that I plan to hang in our hallway in the family picture gallery I have created. J and I did take some items to the thrift store to donate this weekend (a bag of clothes, a small round table, and a box of knick knacks). I have some other items set aside for donation that my mom and her cousin want to look through first, so I plan to meet with her some time this week to pass those on and I've given instructions to donate anything they don't want so none of it comes back to me.
