The January Cure Day 2: Set up your Outbox

This one was easy for me.  We always have what we call "The outreach pile" which is a pile of stuff that we are planning on taking out of the house and donating to Salvation Army/Goodwill etc.  The pile has been sitting on our dining room table for a good two weeks (pretty please give me a SLIGHT break since we were not home for most of the holidays) Garret got some new clothes before Christmas and the deal was that he had to go through his current clothes and get rid of some T-shirts (the man is a wee bit of a clothes hoarder)  Last night we had friends in for dinner and they went through the pile and took a few pairs of shorts so yay stuff left the house.  I found a box in the basement and we will be using that and storing it in our backroom (where we store everything at the moment...but that brings me back to Day 1 so it gets organized sometime this month)  So far we have the clothes we went through, and some books.  I'm pretty sure that those things will not come out of the outbox. woot woot on an organizational tear people!

January Cure Day 1: Make a list of projects

*I should make a side note that since we are still experiencing some construction related insanity upstairs I think that focusing on the main floor for now would make the biggest impact. Although once the closets are finished boy howdy am I going to nerd out with some serious organization. #nerdalert

Entryway: fix light--new fixture? Fix hole in ceiling,
Dining Room: touch up paint behind the hung mirror, remove the full length mirror, paint the trim on doorway heading into living room, organize and purge items in the buffet.
Living Room: Go through DVDs donate the unwanted ones, finish painting the spaces that were patched, clear off all random paper from the tray on the ottoman
Kitchen: fix hole in ceiling, organize drawers and cupboards, finally choose a backsplash, hang a small shelf over the stove, throw out expired condiments in the fridge, make a list of the food we have in the freezer
Backroom: Make a pile for the outreach and garbage, put hooks up to hang skis, snowshoes etc, make a list of the food we have in the deep freeze
Basement: Hang a corkboard over my craft table, get G to go through his tools, organize my scrapbooking stuff, organize the file cabinet so it can actually be used

"Santa" (cough, Mum, cough) put a really cool note pad in our stocking this year. It has a shopping list on one side and a daily breakdown on the other. It is meant to be used as a weekly meal planning tool, but I think I am going to also use it as an organizational guide. G and I tend to get rather squirrelly when our place is a mess and I want to strive for more zen in 2013.