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Underwear and paperwork
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rmc28Underwear (and other clothes)
I'm pregnant and have reached the point where 'normal' clothes are generally uncomfortable. I kept all the maternity wear I liked last time in a storage box, so it's been time for digging through it and seeing what fits / what's still my style after the intervening six years. I've also been slowly swapping what fits with non-maternity clothes, as I don't have enough room in my clothes storage for everything.
Two weeks ago, I moved completely over to maternity knickers, which gave me an excuse to sort out my usual knickers. The nice ones have been put away until after the baby arrives, but all the elderly, faded, battered, and scraggy ones have gone into the textile recycling. I'm going to do similar exercises on other clothing groups: there's no point putting worn-out or disliked clothes into storage.
Paperwork:
My desk slowly descended into chaos during last year, as whenever I was too busy I'd put paper there "to sort out later". This got catastrophic after I got pregnant. Naggingly aware there were probably unpaid bills there (and I never normally let anything go unpaid), I finally got my act together last weekend and started sorting through it.
It took me about 4 evenings in total: I put cheery DVDs on for background / entertainment when I needed a break, and to keep me in the room. One piece of paper at a time - deal with it, dump it or file it. If I thought there would be related pieces of paper, I put it in its own pile on the floor until I found its friends. During the exercise, I took several 3-inch stacks of paper out to the recycling bin, filled the shredder bin twice, and managed to sift out of the chaos the five or six things that really needed sorting out. And then I dealt with them.
There are still piles of things on my desk, but no current paperwork. And there is now SPACE on there so it should be easier to deal with the rest.
I'm now trying to re-establish the habit of opening the post as soon as it arrives, including dealing with it the same day, so we don't end up in the situation again.
I'm pregnant and have reached the point where 'normal' clothes are generally uncomfortable. I kept all the maternity wear I liked last time in a storage box, so it's been time for digging through it and seeing what fits / what's still my style after the intervening six years. I've also been slowly swapping what fits with non-maternity clothes, as I don't have enough room in my clothes storage for everything.
Two weeks ago, I moved completely over to maternity knickers, which gave me an excuse to sort out my usual knickers. The nice ones have been put away until after the baby arrives, but all the elderly, faded, battered, and scraggy ones have gone into the textile recycling. I'm going to do similar exercises on other clothing groups: there's no point putting worn-out or disliked clothes into storage.
Paperwork:
My desk slowly descended into chaos during last year, as whenever I was too busy I'd put paper there "to sort out later". This got catastrophic after I got pregnant. Naggingly aware there were probably unpaid bills there (and I never normally let anything go unpaid), I finally got my act together last weekend and started sorting through it.
It took me about 4 evenings in total: I put cheery DVDs on for background / entertainment when I needed a break, and to keep me in the room. One piece of paper at a time - deal with it, dump it or file it. If I thought there would be related pieces of paper, I put it in its own pile on the floor until I found its friends. During the exercise, I took several 3-inch stacks of paper out to the recycling bin, filled the shredder bin twice, and managed to sift out of the chaos the five or six things that really needed sorting out. And then I dealt with them.
There are still piles of things on my desk, but no current paperwork. And there is now SPACE on there so it should be easier to deal with the rest.
I'm now trying to re-establish the habit of opening the post as soon as it arrives, including dealing with it the same day, so we don't end up in the situation again.
