The Organizing Junkie has some pretty good ideas about how to organize. I am going to use many of her hints and suggestions for tackling my project. First I looked at her PROCESS.
I have created a simple acronym to allow you to break down your organizing project into simple, straightforward steps that will help you stick to your plan and achieve optimal organizing results.
By following the PROCESS steps below anyone can conquer any space of any size. The steps allow you to do one or all at a time depending on the time you have available for the task.
Each letter of PROCESS is a step in organizing. Hopefully I will see results with this PROCESS and be encouraged to do it again.
First up is P:
Plan of attack – plan your project – which area(s) do you want to address – make a list – evaluate present system, what is working, what isn’t working, devise new system – determine budget – develop timeline
To get this part started she suggests asking the following questions that she found in an article on About.com written by Sarah Aquirre.
1. What do I want the purpose of my room or area to be?
A bedroom for my son, born May 16, 2009, who has been sleeping in a cradle in our room since birth. I want it to be a place for him to sleep, play, and keep his books, toys, and clothes.
2. What do I need in or near the room to serve that purpose?
Crib, dressers, toy storage, book storage, rug, lights.
3. What can I remove from the room?
All our crap. CDs, books, luggage, electronics, tools, old linoleum.
4. What problems do I see with the room?
Not enough plugs, no window dressings, ugly wallpaper, holes in the walls, old leak on the ceiling, mess, mess, mess.
5. What organizational tools might solve those problems?
Add more plugs, get room darkening blinds, bookcases, storage boxes, hanging shelves.
6. What habits need to change to solve the organizational problems?
everything
7. What kind of a budget do I have to work with right now for storage solutions?
Not much of one. We really only still need paint and repair materials for the walls, a rug, a ceiling fan/light, blinds, and bookcases.
8. What kind of a timeline is necessary to organize the room? (28 days!)
We are getting a little bit of a late start in the month, but I hope to have the room cleared out enough to move my little guy’s crib in by the beginning of March.
9. What is my plan of action?
Spend a few days emptying the room. Sort through the items in the room and make keep, store, donate, and trash piles.
10. Who can I ask to help me with this? (working with a friend can be fun, productive and encouraging)
My husband will be helping me, but I know my mom and my sister will help me too.
I’m participating in Org Junkie’s 28 Day Organizing Challenge with @orgjunkie during the month of Feb. Wish me luck! http://tiny.cc/KYtro
My little boy is finally growing too big for his cradle. Okay, he has been too big for the cradle since Christmas, but you should see “his” room! It is full of 7 years of our junk. We have started to hoe it out, but it just gets worse. So this month we are going to get all our crap out of there and start to work on the walls and ceiling. Hopefully when we return from our vacation at the end of the month we will be able to move him into his room even if it isn’t done.
Twitter just added a new feature. You can make lists of your friends. I love making lists. I love putting things into groups and categories. I made 4 lists: People I know, Bloggers, Celebs, Companies. The Celebs, and Companies were easy. And even the People I know started easy, but then I started getting confused.
Am I the only one who forgets that they don’t actually know some (or all) of the bloggers they read?
I am going to try again to post for a whole month.
I am having the Sunday evening blues. I have a hard time getting excited about going to school on Mondays. And even worse, I have a parent meeting tomorrow at 8:00. This wouldn’t be so bad, except I have been getting to school at 8:15. I guess Tumblebug and I will have to be ready a bit earlier tomorrow.
Our little Wild Thing had his first Halloween. We trick or treated at my parents’ house and 2 of their neighbors. He looked so cute. I will have to take some better pictures this week, but here he is:
Our little Wild Thing
I made the costume myself. Well, mostly. I bought white footed pajamas from the Gap. I bought them in a 6-12 month so he can wear them all winter (when I remove the tail).
I bought a yard of white felt and had some leftover yellow and white with glitter from other projects. I also use 2 brown pipe cleaners and 2 white ones.
I used a pattern I found at Instructables.com to make his hood. I reduced it to 60% before printing, but it was too small. Then I made one at 75% and it was a little too big. Used up my only dark colored pipe cleaners on the first one, so I colored the white ones with a black dry erase marker.
He roared his terrible roar.
I stayed up 2 nights sewing the hood. Not that I haven’t had all the fabric for weeks. Once I figured out the first one was too small, I knew I had to make another, but the first one came out so perfectly, I couldn’t cannibalize it so I left the whiskers.
I sewed little triangles of felt to the fingers and toes of the sleeper. I also made a little crown out of the yellow and glittery felt to sew onto the chest (over a little bear).
Then I got really crazy and made a larger crown and sewed it to a plain bib. I used a crown clipart that I found on Google images.
I told my husband that in the future costumes must be chosen and materials procured by my long weekend in late October. Even though I have had the sleeper since September and the fabric since early October, the procrastinator in me left it to the last minute.
Pregnancy Fail « FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments.
I can’t tell you how many times a doctor or midwife said “pregnant people” or “when a person is pregnant”, or the like, while I was pregnant. I mean seriously. Political correctness has its place, but that one she-male aside, only women are pregnant!
So much for posting every day in September.
Rain ruined our county fair plans.
Six-Word Saturday at Show My Face.
I was in my literacy room waiting for my third graders. The same room I teach in now. My para walked in from her break. “You haven’t left the room, have you?” she asked. “No.” I said. “Then you don’t know.” she said, quietly. “Know what?” “I will tell you after.” “No, please tell me.” “The World Trade towers are no more.” It was 10:45 on September 11, 2001.
