The “Do One Thing” series chronicles my yearlong effort to tackle one project every day to organize my life and home.
Day 50: I declare today a sick day for the Do One Thing challenge, although I did manage to read and recycle two magazines.
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Do One Thing: Take one day off
Posted in Do One Thing, tagged challenge, declutter, Do One Thing, magazines, New Year's resolution, postaday2011, resolutions on February 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Do One Thing: Junk conversion
Posted in Do One Thing, tagged challenge, decluttering, Do One Thing, garage organization, glass pebbles, magazines, New Year's resolution, postaday2011, resolutions, subscriptions, thrift store, tiles, tiling, vase on February 15, 2011| 1 Comment »
The “Do One Thing” series chronicles my yearlong effort to tackle one project every day to organize my life and home.
Day 45: Rescued a florist’s vase from the garage. Normally, this sort of thing would end up in the thrift store box, but I like its minimalism. I cleaned it up and filled it with colored glass pebbles that I bought for a tiling project. (We were going to intersperse the pebbles in a pattern among the tiles, but it turns out that both my husband and I HATE tiling and there was no way we were going to work any more complications into the project than we had to.)
Anyway, I’m sort of not digging the whole colored pebbles in a vase thing, so it may end up at the thrift store anyway, but at least the garage is a little neater.
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Day 44: Dropped two magazines from our subscription list. Both are guilty of misguided attempts to blend their print and online operations, attempting to increase subscription prices while publishing all stories on the Internet for free. This is not a survivable online strategy. Besides, my husband cashed in a bunch of airline miles a couple of weeks ago for still more magazine subscriptions, so we’re still in the dead tree business.
Do One Thing: Little things. Very little things.
Posted in Do One Thing, tagged challenge, cold, college, ice, magazines, New Year, New Year's resolution, organization, postaday2011, resolutions, snow on January 13, 2011| 1 Comment »
The “Do One Thing” series chronicles my yearlong effort to tackle one project every day to organize my life and home.
Day 11: You would think that being trapped in the house by snow and ice would provide the perfect opportunity to organize, sort and clean. You would be wrong.
I managed to figure out the state of several magazine subscriptions, however, so we’re in no danger of losing our monthly/weekly music/technology/cooking news fix. Note: Print is not dead yet.
Day 12: Third snow day of the week. I managed to help some class handouts that had been taken out of their notebooks find their way home. With a high of 25 degrees, that was really all that anyone could expect of me.
Do One Thing: Filing cabinet clearing
Posted in Do One Thing, tagged challenge, desk, Do One Thing, filing cabinets, home office, magazines, New Year, New Year's resolution, New Yorker, postaday2011, resolutions on January 11, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The “Do One Thing” series chronicles my yearlong effort to tackle one project every day to organize my life and home.
Day 10: Cleaned off the filing cabinets next to my desk, because old New Yorkers deserve a proper burial after they’ve done their duty.
Do One Thing: Magazine reduction
Posted in Do One Thing, Home, tagged challenge, decluttering, Do One Thing, home, magazines, New Year's resolution, office, recycling, resolutions, travel on January 7, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The “Do One Thing” series chronicles my yearlong effort to tackle one project every day to organize my life and home.
Day 6: I decimated a pile of travel magazines taking up space in my home office. The recycling bin is going to be heavy next week.
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