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Pick a Pile

by Toni Herrbach

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This week’s Making Your Home a Haven was made for me. I have been looking at the piles on my desk for about 2 weeks wondering when I was ever going to tackle them. Now Crystal has suggested that we “pick a pile,” so the clutter on my desk must go. I hope to take care of this during lunch and have my after pictures up this afternoon. Here is my before picture…

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The first thing I did was remove everything from the desk area. This is a desk in my kitchen so there is not a lot of room to work. So I moved all the stuff to the bar.

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I then organized the stuff in piles; recycle, file, school, must do, library, not mine, etc…

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I then had some helpers put things away and I filed all the remaining paperwork. I use binders to organize things like bills, bank statements, insurance documents, etc, but that can be discussed in a future post.

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After the filing and putting away I only had a few items remaining. All of which were things I needed to take care of today.

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Now my desk is clean and clutter free. Don’t forget, when tackling horizontal spaces for clutter always clean or dust them when you are finished.

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Exploding Tupperware Update

Here is my tupperware cupboard one week later & still looking good!

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  1. four little penguins says

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    Hi! Your desk looks great! Good job. 🙂
    To answer your question, I “wrote” a preschool curriculum for my oldest two, but my 3rd is not quite as far along as they were at his age, so I am “tweaking” it for him. It’s mostly just a shoving together of a bunch of other people’s ideas. 🙂

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  2. Joy says

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    Okay, so I peeked at your piles of stuff and noticed what looked like Drive Thru History Foundations of Character. A friend of mine and I bought FoC to do with our kids over the summer. Have you already gone through it yet/before? How did it work for you? I’d love to hear!

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