Didn’t get to everything planned this week, but I did get some done and that’s the point - keep at it.
I did dishes and a five minute pick up. I’ve just been so busy lately.
i got through the “craft bag”. tonight i will fix a clock as the clock items were in the “craft bag”. very exciting!
Not much this week. Did manage to go through the mail as I have said I would do weekly, which is good, but that’s about it. I am enjoying everything being just slightly more organized, though – there are a couple of things that have been on my to-do list forever that I could now clearly see needed to be done because they are now at the top of the much-smaller-mail-pile.
Spouse was sick last week, so I was doing a lot more driving, and I am realizing that driving just tends to saps my energy to do anything else. My kids are in the stage of life where I feel like all I do is drive them around, so yeah, that’s a problem. (I’m doing as many carpools as I can, which at least cuts down on the driving by half, but ugh.)
Yeah, driving. I’m driving into the office four days a week now and it’s a lot of time and energy. I’m pretty wiped. On a day like tonight, due to my son’s therapy, I’m spending 2.5 hours on the road and I’m not even getting back to the house until 7pm.
I managed to put my laundry and dishes away this morning. Hoping for a five minute pick-up before bed tonight. But mostly I’ve just been listening to A Slob Comes Clean podcast and living vicariously through her clients.
Had a busy couple of weeks and didn’t do anything, but this weekend I got rid of one (1) pile of papers that I’d just stuck on my dresser. Except for the part of that pile that was my younger child’s classwork from last term, which ended in November, which is only around because I want my husband to look at it and then I will file them. (I probably don’t need to keep them long-term – I kept my older child’s classwork and that has been actually pretty useful to gauge what she was learning as well as compare to my younger child, but since he’s my youngest it’s not like I need to keep it for another child after him.) So yeah, I still need to work on the part where I keep piles around for a specific reason and then I totally don’t follow through with whatever that reason is.
I feel like I need more large dedicated pieces of time. Like, if I had even a couple of consecutive hours to declutter I could, for example, declutter the bookshelf in the bedroom which has become something of a mess. But I haven’t had a couple of consecutive hours to devote to decluttering in a few weeks now, and I don’t anticipate having that time for at least another couple of weeks. And then of course when I’m sick I just lose all will to do decluttering-ish things.
The other thing I need is time when my kiddo also has time to talk to him about all the Legos. Maybe during his spring break as we’re not traveling this year for it.
The other progress is that husband and I have talked about another piece of furniture that would house what right now is a mess of charging cables and random electronic devices hooked up to them. (We move so slowly that yes, this is progress!)
Okay, since I won’t have large bits of time this week, I think… I think I will try to declutter bits of my desk and bits of my dresser. I think I can do that in small increments.
try a 5 minute better. set a timer for 5 minutes, without moving things off the furniture, just look for stuff that can be thrown away, or belong somewhere else. it is amazing how much better that 5 minutes makes things. take the item that belongs elsewhere there straight away. just carry it, don’t put it in a box or bag. pick up the item take it where it should go.