Day 4 - The secret of the TIMER

Now, here we have the simple egg-timer. You can buy these from any kitchen/hardware shop, cheap as chips. I hear you say "how is this going to organise me?". The answer is that it won't unless you use it. I have a real problem with becoming very quickly bored of any monotonous task like de-cluttering the cluttered places in my home. I have, however, come to the conclusion that I can do anything for 15 minutes that I can't do all day long.

So, first I picked a spot (not the pimple kind), the kind I have shown here. This is a table, yes a table, can't you see the table? This table is in my upstairs lounge. I really dont feel honest in saying it's a lounge cos if you tried to lounge in it, its the bed of nails variety with the amount of clutter in it. It's the room we keep the books, clothes, TVs, craft stuff, broken printers, zebras, elephants and the like. You know the kind of room I mean, don't you?

You take your trusty timer and set it for 15 mins. The clock is ticking!! Take a big laundry basket and tip as much stuff off the table as the basket will hold. Now go to a clear area, if you can find one, and sort the basket into 3 piles -

1. Put away in that room (not yet!)

2. Put away in another room

3. Give away (right now!)

Stop tipping and sorting as soon, I repeat, as soon as the timer rings!

Start with the pile that has to be put away in that room. Now we are not into micro-organising at the minute, ie; 1p pieces and 2p pieces counted and put into separate compartments of your purse and safety pins separated from sewing needles. This is about books on a book shelf in any old order, craft materials in your craft cupboard randomly etc.

The 'other room' pile goes to each room it belongs, by carrying a pile to each room in the laundry basket  and shoving it in beside its partners, ie; one shoe in the shoe cupboard, a DVD beside all the rest etc.

Now, you should be left with the elephants and zebras that don't belong in your house cos you don't use them, need them or have used them for 6 months. Put them in a bag and straight to the car ready to go to the nearest charity shop. That way, you wont be tempted to start using that American juicer that uses 8 carrots to make 30mls of juice, lol.

See you tomoz x I leave you with the table -