How Do You Stay Organized? (Pictures Welcome!)

[Miri]

Everything, and i mean everything gets put on my phone calendar, phone notes and
phone lists, things to do, to buy etc.

This also syncs with my iPad and mac so the info is always somewhere for me to check
and i set reminders two days ahead for everything!

Without my phone I would be lost as it has all my things to remember and all of my aunts
medical appointments etc.

Plus at this time of the year it also has my christmas list of what to buy who etc
(sorry to mention the C word in October but its how i stay organised).

I can tell you at the swish of a screen exactly what is happening over the next few months.

My phone is my personal secretary I must think of a name for it, would have to be a male
secretary lol. Maybe I could call it Mr Darcy or something!

Just a pity it can't make me a cup of tea.

 

[BruceWayne]

I don't. I'm organized when I'm not.

 

[Miri]

PS I also hate junk, if I do not use something for a year and I know I am unlikely to get any use
out of it, then I either give it away or throw it.

For me a hoarder of anything living with me, would be my worst nightmare.

 

[AbigailZeke]

PS I also hate junk, if I do not use something for a year and I know I am unlikely to get any use
out of it, then I either give it away or throw it.

For me a hoarder of anything living with me, would be my worst nightmare.

Same here. When I was living with my siblings, I take all of their stuff out and tell them to get all they need cause I'll throw away whatever's left.

My dad is a hoarder and he always, ALWAYS makes space in the attic for stuff he won't be using. Fortunately for him, I'm a little scared of heights so I never check the attic.

 

[seoulsearch]

PS I also hate junk, if I do not use something for a year and I know I am unlikely to get any use
out of it, then I either give it away or throw it.

For me a hoarder of anything living with me, would be my worst nightmare.

I can't even watch the previews for shows like "Hoarders".

I tend to accumulate clutter in the form of piles of paperwork, but all my "messes" are at least sanitary messes.

When I see the cameras pan the endless heaps and mazes inside people's houses on those shows, I'm always thinking about that kinds of germs, bacteria, and critters are living throughout and underneath all those piles. Not to mention the bodies of people who got lost in all that garbage and were never able to find their way out!

It totally makes my skin crawl.

 

[Hellooo]

Maybe this will work
(Corresponds with my first response)

 

[zeroturbulence]

I actually have some tips on organizationalizing, but I'd like to include some pics in it too and am going to take some first..
(my camera's batteries need recharging, and my phone's camera is proving insufficient for the angles I want)

 

[torus]

If I say all I need to get organized is a miracle, would there be others willing to admit the same?

 

[zeroturbulence]

I am almost ready to post my tips... The batteries for the camera are charged...now I have to dig out my old camera...

 

[Lenardzw]

Organized? Whats that? My birthday happens on the same day each year. Does that count?

 

[Lenardzw]

On a more serious note, my life can tend to get a little cluttered. I am fairly convinced that paperwork breeds on my desk. I have to periodically have a "purge" of old paperwork, old contacts and pictures etc on my phone and even old books. I like to go through my bookshelf from time to time and set aside books I've read (or not...) that will be useful to somebody else. So I recently gave a book of skits and youth activities to our youth leader. He is making good use of it. I often clear our my wardrobe of clothes that I no longer wear and hand them to our church. this helps bring some sanity to my often cluttered existence.

I tend to be ruthless in getting rid of stuff: Old documents, notes, magazines, contact details of people whose season has passed in my life, old books that others can enjoy. Even my cat thinks its next! [See Avatar. He's hiding under a mouse on my bed]

 

[zeroturbulence]

Oh well.. i got sidetracked. Ended up spending all afternoon and evening painting the trunk of my car.. I'll try again later...

 

[Hellooo]

I picked out my 2017 planner.
I am ready for everything.

 

[wwjd_kilden]

I don't

When I lived in Scotland I didn't have much storage furniture (couldn't be bothered to buy it when I didn't know how long I'd stay), so I kept all my important papers in the top drawer of my commode