I participated in several organizing challenges this past year such as Zone Defense, 8 Weeks to a Less Cluttered Home & Home Organization 101. I did not do any posts for Zone Defense or Home Organization 101 but you can read about what I did on my post 8 Weeks to a Less Cluttered Home.
The Projects on My List
this Year:
1. In the Basement-
The basement is in the biggest mess and it seems to get that way every
winter and so it is time to clean it up again. Besides the general clean up,
the 2 areas of the basement I most need to work on this year is our homeschool
storage areas because to be honest it is emotional clutter more than anything
else.
I want to organize all my kids'
past years homeschool work. I need to downsize it so that it is manageable
enough to pass on to them. I have 10+ years of stuff for each child and I would
like each of their stuff to fit into one file box each. I don’t know why I kept
so much. I threw a lot away each year but at the end of the year I would just
store everything we had left and I meant to condense it down each summer but it
never happened. It has just been too overwhelming a job to deal with
emotionally but I think I am ready to work on it this year. I may have to ask
my husband for help.
I want to downsize the amount of
school supplies we own. When we started homeschooling we shopped the before
school sales and got supplies for cheap but now that the kids are grown we no
longer need so much stuff. I have given the girls some for their homes, donated
to the church school supply drive, and given some away to the girls my daughter
Nastasja nannies but it is not enough more needs to go.
2. On the Computer-
I need to organize our digital
pictures and get them into a viewable format. The pictures I have on my
computer are very organized and I have put a lot of work into it over the years
but I need to merge my husband’s into mine and delete duplicates. I also want
to get them organized to print in books and put them on CD's per year so that
people can view them along with giving copies to our kids. I have already done
some work on this project this month but this is a huge project so it's going
to be a long project.
3. In My Office-
The last 4 months I have been
working on reorganizing and decorating my seasonal and personal notebooks and I
plan to continue the process.
4. In the Kitchen-
I have done a lot of work on my
cookbooks, cooking magazines, and recipe notebooks this past year but there is
still a lot I want to do. Most people would think what I have is manageable but
I want to only keep favorites and a usable amount. I find that I do not even
use 90% of what I currently own so some of it needs to go.
I am sure there are more that I will be doing over the year but these areas
are the main ones I want to work on this year.