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Tackle it Tuesday – My Bathroom Shelves

February 22, 2011 By

In the bathroom that Kaitlyn and I share, I have a deep recess in the wall with shelves that I use to store all my makeup and skincare stuff. I never meant to let it get this bad. The storage cabinets with the multiple drawers seemed like such a good idea at first, I would have one drawer for face makeup, one drawer for eye makeup, one drawer for lip makeup, etc. Everything would stay neatly in it’s drawer and I’d always know where everything was.

Yeah, right. Not only have I failed at keeping the drawers organized, but I have all this big stuff that doesn’t fit in the drawers that ends up piled up in FRONT of the drawers. Which means I can’t OPEN the drawers. I’m going to show you something that causes me all kinds of embarrassment any time someone comes over here and needs to use my bathroom:

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And here’s my biggest problem, bigger even than these shelves – I can’t throw things away if they still seem useful. For example, I have lipsticks I bought that seemed great at the store but turned out to be the totally wrong color at home. How can I justify throwing away a lipstick I only used once or twice? It seems so completely environmentally irresponsible. And yet, I don’t think people at Goodwill are looking to buy lipstick that has touched someone else’s mouth. Right?

So let’s assume I’m going to clean out those shelves. What do I do with the stuff that’s still good but that I don’t want? Anyone have any ideas? This is a Tackle that needs all the help it can get!

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Tackle It Tuesday – Trying to Achieve Inbox Zero

February 15, 2011 By

Tackle It Tuesday Meme Tackle It Tuesday posts are usually about getting something done around the house, but I’m using it today to discuss a problem I have that is much, much bigger than just a messy house – my email inboxes. My inboxes are the bane of my existence. Everyone in my family and most of my close friends have, at one time or another, had to listen to me talk about how I cannot get caught up on email. I use Gmail, which lets me create folders to put messages in, or labels to mark what messages in my inbox are for, and I’ve tried. Believe me, I’ve tried.

And to make it worse, I have three Gmails. One for Table for Five, one for MomReviews, and one for MomCooks. Gmail lets me combine all three into one inbox if I want, but with hundreds of messages a day coming into all three, it just got stressful seeing that many messages all in one place!

My ultimate goal is to achieve Inbox Zero. Inbox Zero is the creation of Merlin Mann of 43 Folders, a site about finding the time and attention to do creative work. In 2006, Merlin created the Inbox Zero Series on 43 Folders as a way of  “looking at the skills, tools, and attitude needed to empty your email inbox — and then keep it that way.”  A video of a presentation he made at a Google Tech Talk on July 23, 2007 has become internet-famous, and for a good reason – it’s inspiring.

So, when I thought about a Tackle It Tuesday post for today, I knew right away that I not only wanted to write about tackling email, but also DO IT.  I’m not going to complete this task today, but I’m going to start today and I’m not going to stop until I’ve learned a way to make Inbox Zero work for me. Not just because I need it for me, but because I’m pretty sure my family and friends would like it if I would just stop complaining about my dang email already :P

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Tackle It Tuesday – Kaitlyn’s Room

June 1, 2010 By

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This is my first post for Tackle It Tuesday, a terrific weekly feature that started on 5 Minutes for Mom! We had no specific plans for Memorial Day, so while Chris & the kids were cleaning out the garage – meaning, breaking down all the boxes I had tossed in there over the last month to take to the recycling center – I decided to tackle Kaitlyn’s room. At first I wasn’t going to take a picture because it was just so embarrassing, and then I decided what the heck, it would be a good excuse to do a post for Tackle It Tuesday. Brace yourselves:

Kaitlyns Room 1

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Why yes, it DOES look like the Barnes & Noble kids’ section and the Target toy aisle exploded all over her room!  Also, last week I asked Nathan to put the laundry away and he whined that he couldn’t put Kaitlyn’s clothes away because he didn’t know what drawers anything went in. So I solved that problem for him:

No more excuses for you, Mister :P

I’ve always assumed that the goal of Tackle It Tuesday was to show how you completed a project, but I checked with Susan on Twitter and she assured me that it’s okay to just post the beginning of a project – whew!  See, I had every intention of Kaitlyn and I actually cleaning her room, but Monday evening I started to feel lightheaded, and it gradually got worse. I went to the doctor on Tuesday and learned I have an ear infection. I feel like I just got off a merry-go-round pretty much all the time right now. So, hopefully by NEXT Tuesday I’ll be posting the follow-up photos showing the CLEAN room!

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