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Friday report
Sep. 8th, 2017 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adairI hauled a bag of books to Books to Prisoners, along with some saved newspapers for packing. I organized some more fanfic on the new computer and deleted a few files either incomplete or now of no interest. That is going to be a long-term project.
I looked through a stack of saved paperwork and either dealt with it or shredded it (requests for donations from various organizations that I decided I did not want to donate to just now). I hope to make that kind of decision quickly in the future and not let it all collect on the desk.
Wednesdays and Fridays are my free days - no regular outside commitments. I am encouraging myself to use at least a couple of morning hours for some regular household organization activities - pay bills, sort piles on the desk, rip addresses off catalogs, attend to surfaces where things accumulate. For me these are the bedroom chair, the table inside the door, my desk, the kitchen table area where my laptop sits. If I let these surfaces go the piles get intimidating. If I tend them fairly often the surfaces clear for at least half a day and paperwork is dealt with before it gets too old. Most bills go in the top file box and are checked regularly (Wednesdays, most often) but other stuff like requests for donations or shopping coupons stack up. So I am trying to make Wed and Fri mornings a time to do a little surface clearing. That worked this week.
My next major project is to sort my closet, move summer-only clothes to the utility room closet and move winter clothes to the bedroom. As part of this effort I hope to discard some clothing. I have a bag for donations and I want to fill it. I think I am changing my ideas about what clothing needs to be kept - we shall see.
I looked through a stack of saved paperwork and either dealt with it or shredded it (requests for donations from various organizations that I decided I did not want to donate to just now). I hope to make that kind of decision quickly in the future and not let it all collect on the desk.
Wednesdays and Fridays are my free days - no regular outside commitments. I am encouraging myself to use at least a couple of morning hours for some regular household organization activities - pay bills, sort piles on the desk, rip addresses off catalogs, attend to surfaces where things accumulate. For me these are the bedroom chair, the table inside the door, my desk, the kitchen table area where my laptop sits. If I let these surfaces go the piles get intimidating. If I tend them fairly often the surfaces clear for at least half a day and paperwork is dealt with before it gets too old. Most bills go in the top file box and are checked regularly (Wednesdays, most often) but other stuff like requests for donations or shopping coupons stack up. So I am trying to make Wed and Fri mornings a time to do a little surface clearing. That worked this week.
My next major project is to sort my closet, move summer-only clothes to the utility room closet and move winter clothes to the bedroom. As part of this effort I hope to discard some clothing. I have a bag for donations and I want to fill it. I think I am changing my ideas about what clothing needs to be kept - we shall see.
