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Have you started your spring cleaning? Do you do spring cleaning? I like to try and give my house a good once over in spring and fall to get ready for the major changes in season. And this summer, my daughter and her fiance are moving into my basement (previous owners converted it to an apartment) so it's especially important that I get things cleaned up and organized. Insurance Hunter has an article about getting organized and ready for your spring cleaning and there are some great ideas in it!
Tips for getting your spring cleaning chores organized
Their first idea is to make a list. I do this by sitting down and doing a brain dump. That is, I simply write down everything that I feel needs to be dealt with as it pops into my head. I do this as a brainstorming session, putting my paper on a clipboard and walking through my house to remind myself of items that need to be done.
Then I put this list on my fridge – or some other place where I will see it all the time. I leave it up there for a week before I go any further so that I can add to it as a I think of more chores BEFORE i move on to Insurance Hunders' next idea. That is, to take my list and start priorotizing it. This is part of the reason why I think it's important to give it a bit of time before you call your list "finished" and ready to start using. Of course you can always add more to it but giving yourself time to build as comprehensive a list as possible means that you won't then have to make constant adjustments to it.
Insurance Hunter then goes on to talk about breaking those goals/chores/projects down into smaller ones so that you are dealing with more manageable "bites". And then to assign each one a specific "due date", leaving yourself some flexibility in case something comes up and you need to change your plan but giving you a framework to get started with!
I think all too often, I tend to be one who gets on a whim to get cleaned up and organized so I just randomly start grabbing things that I see, as I see them, often even abandoning my current task because I see another that I decide is more important. OR I start on one and realize that really, there's another task that needs to be completed before my first one can be tackled. Before you know it, I have piles of stuff to be sorted and boxes and containers everywhere! Approaching spring cleaning with a plan as suggested by Insurance Hunter is a much better way to go!
One final point that they bring up is the idea of rewarding yourself when you complete the job – I like to use smaller rewards for accomplishing smaller steps along the way to keep myself motivated as I go! However you do it, though, I think it's crucial that we don't forget this final step!!! We're working hard at what is usually a thankless job, so we just need to "thank ourselves"!
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