Unclutter challenge

[fred_mouse]

I interrupt our regular programming to suggest a small challenge. Inspired by reading the section of the 'A Slob Comes Clean' blog that talks about focusing on the visible, I challenge you to go to where visitors enter your house and identify three items of clutter that you would like to do something about. If you see more than three, make a note of the extras, and pick three. You can come back to those others later. If you see fewer than three, come back tomorrow, and the next day, and look again. If, after three looks, you can't see anything new, then I commend you! Deal with the one or two items as below, and be pleased.

For each of your three identified items (or piles of items, in my case), tell us what you need to do with them, and a deadline that you want to have done that by.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Here is what I am tempted to make the three things:

* Crateful of paper products
* Boxful of television
* Boxful of cat tree

Problem is dealing with any of these requires yak shaving. To wit, I need enough clean bedroom to put the crate and contents where they go, and I need enough clean living room to install cat tree and be able to install television! So here's my actual three things:

* Recycles in bedroom—bag up, haul to toters before work Monday
* Recycles in entryway—bag up, haul to toters before work Monday
* Food containers—put in cabinet where they belong before work Monday (these all ended up on top of the cookbook bookcase because flat surface six inches from where the dish drying rack lives)

Bedroom != entryway, but I think you see my reasoning?

[alexseanchai]

Recycles from entryway are [almost] all in toter now.

[alexseanchai]

I got some of the bedroom recycles hauled out to the toters. Not all, and it occurred to me I want to hang on to some of the roughly-small-moving-box size boxes for "all these books are going to UUCD auction" purposes anyhow, but a bunch of the small and medium shipping boxes I flattened and recycled.

[fred_mouse]

Good job in getting things done, and working out that some of the items weren't clutter before it was a problem.

[fred_mouse]

Oh, I am familiar with the yak shaving aspect. This is why I didn't pick any of the objects to deal with that start with 'get in contact with (friend), and find a time to catch up'.

But all of those things you found to do are good ones!

[alexseanchai]

Scratch food containers. Write in cases of cat food cans. They were cluttering the entryway. They're not cluttering the entryway.

WOOT did three things

[fred_mouse]

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