As I prepared my guest post this week for SavingCentsWithSense about organization, I pulled together a lot of resources I have shared over many posts here. I want to list them here all together so you will have a reference source to go back to. I will list the organization ones here and I will post the meal planning ones tomorrow on Meal Plan Monday.
Here is the newest “FUN” Cleaning Process: #speedclean!!
#speedclean Is to help those of us who get sucked into the computer for too long each day. If you are a twitter user and use tweetdeck or any other of the applications that give you instant tweet alerts, start following #speedclean. It was developed by Kelleigh Ratzlaff and the idea behind #speedclean is “that you clean as fast as you can so you can get on to doing the stuff that you love to do. Just get it over with.” Follow the hashtag #speedclean and everyday there will be tweets that say – quick go clean off your counters for 5 minutes. They are quick and it is comforting knowing others are “STEPPING AWAY from the computer” and getting things done. It is actually fun. You would not believe all the stuff people get done – of course it helps if you listen and actually GO CLEAN!! That is my goal this week – I will participate in #speedclean on Monday, Wednesday & Friday. Will you join me?
Other ORGANIZING/Simplifying:
- simplemom is a fantastic blog that covers many areas of simplifying your life. Some of my favorite tools are her Daily Docket and Home Management Notebook. She advocates planning your day by Eating the Frog First (getting the least desirable thing out of the way) while warning us that the thing that will cause us to continue to be disorganized and unproductive is aiming for perfection. Boy did that hit home. There are so many good ideas here you will find yourself clicking from post to post to post!
- Home Sanctuary is a site that challenges you daily with activities to try to make your home a sanctuary. With her Secret to Successful Home Management, she posts about Minimum Maintenance. I love it and that she gives a reasonable and accomplishable (is that a word?) list of HOW you could do it with the “Real World” Housekeeping schedule!
- I also love FlyLady’s Beginner’s Baby Steps – she believes you should ALWAYS go to bed with a clean sink so your morning is greeted with a clean “smiling” sink to start your day. I have to agree. When ever I come down to a clean kitchen sink, I feel more motivated to keep groovin’. Her simple steps do not require you CHANGE everything overnight. You start by just cleaning your sink. She build up habits over a 31 day baby step cycle.
Look in upcoming weeks for a view of my working Home Management Notebook. It is in the creation phases now! Happy Organizing!
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