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Brower Addie's Everyday Gourmet, personal
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Tips: Tip 1: Make a Do or Die time to work on organizing projects weekly. Do you have a situation at home that needs organizing? Get out your date book now and for the next four weeks - ink it in - a two hour slot. If you don't commit a specific time to getting organized, it simply won't happen. Tip 2: How to Sort Ingredients:
The Goal: Make Progress. Stop when you run out of time, pick up where you left off a week later and know exactly what pile is what. Everything is contained, so piles can't tip. Everything is labeled, so you don't have to go back through and figure out what piles are what. When the donate bag is full, it goes directly into the trunk to be delivered the next time you're out and about. Tip 3: Keep an ongoing donate department. A Box or a hamper lined with a bag - in a closet or corner that is easily accessible to daily living. Keep your itemized list for taxes in the box. This way, the minute you try on a sweater and the color makes you look sick, it goes directly in the donate box, never to be in your way again. Some people keep a donate receptacle in a few places throughout the house, for easy access. If you get rid of it the minute it's no longer useful to you, you won't have stuff accumulating. Tip 4: If a system is not working, stop - think it through. Ask, "What is specifically not working here?" "What could work?" Tip 5: Establish a laundry department It needs to have a waist high folding table and tables or shelves to put baskets on. Each person in the family needs their own basket in which clothes are put as they are sorted and folded. The laundry department is a must - it will keep the clean laundry out of the couch insides, off the dining room table and off your bed. The only other chore that gets more attention then laundry is dishes and we have a specific spot for dishes. Laundry deserves its own spot too. I believe this so strongly that I converted a bedroom in my house to a laundry room. Tip 6: When sorting and purging, ask yourself three questions: Do I need this? Do I love this? Does it deserve to take up my life? Tip 7: Items that you use once every two weeks or more deserve to be in your direct living space. Items used less than that need to be in a storage area. Perfect examples:
Tip 8: Look for reasons to get rid of things rather than reasons to keep them. Example: This white shirt is too short in the waist, too tight across the chest and slightly itchy vs. I might wear this under a sweater if I got desperate. One thought pattern is looking for ways to keep, the other to discard. Tip 9: Every piece of paper that comes into your home belongs in one of six categories:
Label a manila file folder with each of these categories, and put each piece of mail in its category as you open it. Wow! Never a pile of mystery paper all over the dining room table again! Time to pay bills? Grab the file folder - they're all in one place. Got 15 minutes before the kids get home from school? Grab the project file and knock off an insurance call, setup a doctor appointment and arrange to get 3 estimates on siding the house. All because you had your projects folder at your fingertips when opportunity knocked! The files may be kept in a graduated file folder, or a basket, either in the place where you open your mail, or in the place where you write out your bills. Tip 10: Always pick up a hitchhiker. Anytime you are going from one room in the house to another, grab a hitchhiker. Going from the family room to the kitchen? Grab some glasses. Going downstairs? Grab an armful of dirty laundry. Even if you don't get it all the way to its final destination, get it partway there and get in the rest of the way later.
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