It’s time for a new 5 Minute Organizing Challenge! What can you do in 5 minutes to gain a little order in your life? You can put a few things back in place or gather your important items. Here’s a new set of five things for you to consider adding to your routine this month. Try them on for size and feel free to suggest a few of your own.
Do you have a love affair with shoes? Are they filling every closet in your home along with a few areas in your car, too? As summer comes to a close and fall makes a grand entrance, now’s a good time to take a look through your collection and keep your kicks in order. Here are five steps to get you started…
1. Select 5 pairs of shoes that need repairing. Put them in your car right now to take to the shoe repair shop.
2. Keep your favorite and most used shoes in the front of your closet (or in another easily visible/accessible location).
3. Choose 5 pairs of shoes that you haven’t worn in at least two seasons and put them in the donate pile to send to Soles4Souls, Goodwill, or your favorite charity.
4. Use a shoe rack, bench (place by the main entryway), or basket (use in your trunk or by main doorway) to keep your shoes from spilling into various parts of your space. Don’t have a rack to corral your shoes? Add this to your to do list!
5. Keep your boots in good shape but using boot inserts. And, give them a good shine and polish, too.
It’s time for a new 5 Minute Organizing Challenge! What can you do in 5 minutes to gain a little order in your life? You can put a few things back in place or gather your important items. Here’s a new set of five things for you to consider adding to your routine this month. Try them on for size and feel free to suggest a few of your own.
Maintaining a home office can be tricky since work and personal papers can get mixed together along with a few household items. But, there are a few quick things you can do right now, in a just a few short minutes, to start getting things in order.
1. Put away 5 files.
2. Put all the papers on your desk in a neat pile.
3. Take 5 non-office items off your desk (e.g., coffee mugs, shopping bags, magazines, clothing, etc.)
4. Throw away pens and markers that don’t work.
5. Separate personal papers from business documents — start with one handful
6. *Bonus Tip* Start a to do list!
It’s time for a new 5 Minute Organizing Challenge! What can you do in 5 minutes to gain a little order in your life? You can put a few things back in place or gather your important items. Here’s a new set of five things for you to consider adding to your routine this month. Try them on for size and feel free to suggest a few of your own.
Eating healthier is usually a resolution that many of us make. Now that we’re more than half-way through the year, it’s time to check where you are with this goal. If you still need a little help, consider creating a meal plan. Planning ahead will take some time up front, but it’s a great way to add healthier fare to your menu, and you can you can break the process down in to more manageable chunks.
Here are a five ways to get started:
1. Write down five things you love to eat.
2. Write down five foods you want to stay away from.
3. Write down the days that you will not be able to cook (i.e., you’ll order in).
4. Think of recipes you already have that you can refer to.
5. Put the crock pot on the counter! If you don’t have one, this is great time to get one as it is a huge time saver.
Check out the June 2012 Organizing Challenge
It’s time for a new 5 Minute Organizing Challenge! What can you do in 5 minutes to gain a little order in your life? You can put a few things back in place or gather your important items. Here’s a new set of five things for you to consider adding to your routine this month. Try them on for size and feel free to suggest a few of your own.
1. Back up your laptop to your external hard drive or to Carbonite (or Mozy). Remember, you just have to start or schedule the back up. You don’t have to sit with your machine during the back up process.
2. Delete five e-mails.
3. Put five cables or cords that you no longer use in your electronics recycling bin.
4. While you’re at it, put those old cell phones and unwanted electronics in the recycling bin, too.
5. Wipe down the screen on your mobile phone and laptop with a microfiber cloth.
Check out the May 2012 Organizing Challenge
It’s time for a new 5 Minute Organizing Challenge! What can you do in 5 minutes to gain a little order in your life? You can put a few things back in place or gather your important items. Here’s a new set of five things for you to consider adding to your routine this month. Try them on for size and feel free to suggest a few of your own.
1. Select 5 books to donate. You really can do this in 5 minutes.
2. Sign up for Catalog Choice.
3. Give away magazines that you’ve read to a local school, community center, or favorite friend.
4. Put old newspapers in your recycling bin. *Spend an extra five minutes and put them in your compost pile.
5. Discontinue the delivery of your telephone book (unless you really use them on a regular basis).
*Bonus Tip*
6. Take a look at the Swingline Stack-and-Shred 100X Hands Free Shredder. Yes, hands free. Put papers in and walk away.
It’s time for a new 5 Minute Organizing Challenge! What can you do in 5 minutes to gain a little order in your life? You can put a few things back in place or gather your important items. Here’s a new set of five things for you to consider adding to your routine this month. Try them on for size and feel free to suggest a few of your own.
Germs are everywhere. They’re tough. Hard working. The way you want a new employee to be. They just deliver a massive payload that can knock you off your feet. Build these five things into your regular routine so you can get the upper hand.
1. Wipe down your phone, door handles, steering wheel, fridge handles, and other things you touch often.
2. Sometimes, you touch things that don’t belong to you. Like the buttons on an ATM or in an elevator. Be sure that you have a travel bottle of hand sanitizer with you. Put them in all your purses, in your car, on your desk, etc.
3. Something else you touch that’s not yours is another person. Like when you shake their hands. Yep, break out the sanitizer or head to the loo to wash your digits.
4. Keep a garbage container in your car to collect your trash and keep those science experiments from brewing.
5. Have you gotten your flu shot yet?
While I’m away, check out this month’s organizing challenge.
It’s time for a new 5 Minute Organizing Challenge! What can you do in 5 minutes to gain a little order in your life? You can put a few things back in place or gather your important items. Here’s a new set of five things for you to consider adding to your routine this month. Try them on for size and feel free to suggest a few of your own.
1. Have you changed the batteries in your smoke detectors? You should have when changed your clocks this past weekend.
2. If you haven’t already, make a 2011 Tax folder AND make and appointment with your CPA.
3. Pick two accounts to sign up for paperless billing.
4. Walk through your living room and put away up to 5 things that don’t belong there.
5. Add a handful of unwanted papers to your shred or recycling pile.
Check out the January 2012 Organizing Challenge
I’m on a mini-sabbatical and have lined up a few posts ahead of time, like this one for first time parents. It’s a bit of a sequel to my guest post for Geralin Thomas about things you should do to baby proof your home. Did you baby proof before or after you brought your little one home?
It’s time for a new 5 Minute Organizing Challenge! What can you do in 5 minutes to gain a little order in your life? You can put a few things back in place or gather your important items. Here’s a new set of five things for you to consider adding to your routine this month. Try them on for size and feel free to suggest a few of your own.
1. Install smoke detectors if you don’t have them already. If you do, test them and/or put in new batteries.
2. While you’re at it, install a carbon monoxide detector, too.
3. Do you have a fire extinguisher in your house? If not, add it to your list of things to buy.
4. Need gates? Put them in off-limit areas, especially those with stairs.
5. Adjust the temperature of your water heater to lower than 120° F to avoid scalding.
*EXTRA CREDIT*
6. Be sure that your child’s regular caregiver(s) is healthy and up to date with all his/her shots, like this one.
I’m taking a sabbatical and have lined up a few posts ahead of time. I’ll also be re-sharing some of my fave OTR articles and introducing you to new guest authors as well as other interesting info while I’m away. Enjoy today’s 5 minute organizing challenge!
It’s time for a new 5 Minute Organizing Challenge! What can you do in 5 minutes to gain a little order in your life? You can put a few things back in place or gather your important items. Here’s a new set of five things for you to consider adding to your routine this month. Try them on for size and feel free to suggest a few of your own.
1. If you celebrate Christmas (or any holiday that you have to put stuff up), you should start thinking about when you’ll be taking down your holiday decor. Pick a date and write it on your calendar.
2. You might also want to start enlisting some help, especially if you have lots of ornaments and holiday thingies to put away. Write those names on the calendar as well.
3. Too much stuff? Grab a box and write “DONATE” on it. Then, put in the decorations AND gifts that you really don’t want. You’ll be glad you did (plus it saves a trip to the store to return them, right?). Helping someone else (or several someone elses) is a good thing — no matter what time of year it is.
4. You know what’s next, right? Yep, those holiday cards. Are you keeping all of them? Even the ones that just have a signature…with no touching words? Recycle the ones you don’t want and store the rest in a greeting card organizer.
5. And, finally, go pack your lunch for work! You can’t let all those left overs go to waste, can you? =) You could also string a few 5 minutes sessions together and even work on cleaning out the fridge.
Check out the November 2011 Organizing Challenge
I’m taking a sabbatical and have lined up a few posts ahead of time. I’ll also be re-sharing some of my fave OTR articles and introducing you to new guest authors as well as other interesting info while I’m away. Enjoy!
It’s time for a new 5 Minute Organizing Challenge! What can you do in 5 minutes to gain a little order in your life? You can put a few things back in place or gather your important items. Here’s a new set of five things for you to consider adding to your routine this month. Try try them on for size and feel free to suggest a few of your own.
1. Hate to remind you about this, but have you started pulling together some of the info you’ll need to get your taxes done? Maybe you can start by filling out your tax organizer. I’m sure your CPA sent you one. No time to do it right now? Put it on your task list.
2. Actually, you might just want to start writing that to do list. First, start your list for TODAY. Write down 1-2 things you WILL accomplish by day’s end (perhaps some holiday organizing tasks?). Then, capture all the other things you need to get done and add due dates.
3. Those shoes hanging about your door – put them away. Dirty socks, too? Throw them in the laundry basket. No, don’t put this on your list. Just do it!
4. How’s your car doing? Had an oil change or tune up lately? Schedule it or put it on your to do list.
5. Have you signed up for that thing you’ve been wanting to do but haven’t done yet? Yep, put it on your list. =)
Check out the October 2011 Organizing Challenge
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