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A Few Remarks about Lists, and other supports for time management and personal organization
My regular readers have already moved on to the next post, or are bracing themselves. Whenever I say, "A Few Remarks", think that guy in the trench coat, back repeatedly with, "Just one more ..."
I have posted in the past about my decluttering efforts. Because R. and I were Mature when we married, we each had fully developed homes: furniture, decorations, kitchen equipment, linens, etc. We also moved across country a couple times, and we didn't completely empty either original household for a while. But when we moved here, we both cleared out our original spaces, and after we'd been here for a couple years, I had the contents of a storage space shipped out as well (<-- that's not completely accurate, but let's pretend it's close enough). Fortunately, we have an unfinished basement that is large. We whittled it down over time, and I read a bunch more decluttering, personal and home organization books, time management, etc., including David Allen's _Getting Things Done_. Eventually, all the rooms in the house were painted, the photos collected in albums, furniture rearranged and replaced, things framed and put on walls, home gym filled out with some additional items, my CDs ripped and moved along, my library drastically reduced, etc. Old electronics were recycled. Things were moved up to the cloud. Backup processes were instituted, blah, blah, bleeping blah. I set up a home office with a desk and a lovely chair and a big monitor and decent keyboard and trackpad to plug my laptop into.
My latest project has involved developing packing lists for different lengths and types of travel and adjusting some of the things that I travel with, with the goal of forgetting fewer things when I travel, and being able to pack lighter while still having everything with me to make me and my family comfortable wherever we go. The current project is figuring out how to do a short trip using only carry-on luggage, a skill I once had when I was single, but let me tell you this is a whole different world with two small children (I never once contemplated this while the kids were in diapers/strollers).
I thought it would be useful to try to summarize some of what I am doing and how I am doing it, as always (because it's all about me!) mostly for myself, but also for any of my friends who might be curious.
Some of this is going to be boring. Good news! I'm going to break it up into a bunch of posts and label them clearly. Forewarned, etc.
I have posted in the past about my decluttering efforts. Because R. and I were Mature when we married, we each had fully developed homes: furniture, decorations, kitchen equipment, linens, etc. We also moved across country a couple times, and we didn't completely empty either original household for a while. But when we moved here, we both cleared out our original spaces, and after we'd been here for a couple years, I had the contents of a storage space shipped out as well (<-- that's not completely accurate, but let's pretend it's close enough). Fortunately, we have an unfinished basement that is large. We whittled it down over time, and I read a bunch more decluttering, personal and home organization books, time management, etc., including David Allen's _Getting Things Done_. Eventually, all the rooms in the house were painted, the photos collected in albums, furniture rearranged and replaced, things framed and put on walls, home gym filled out with some additional items, my CDs ripped and moved along, my library drastically reduced, etc. Old electronics were recycled. Things were moved up to the cloud. Backup processes were instituted, blah, blah, bleeping blah. I set up a home office with a desk and a lovely chair and a big monitor and decent keyboard and trackpad to plug my laptop into.
My latest project has involved developing packing lists for different lengths and types of travel and adjusting some of the things that I travel with, with the goal of forgetting fewer things when I travel, and being able to pack lighter while still having everything with me to make me and my family comfortable wherever we go. The current project is figuring out how to do a short trip using only carry-on luggage, a skill I once had when I was single, but let me tell you this is a whole different world with two small children (I never once contemplated this while the kids were in diapers/strollers).
I thought it would be useful to try to summarize some of what I am doing and how I am doing it, as always (because it's all about me!) mostly for myself, but also for any of my friends who might be curious.
Some of this is going to be boring. Good news! I'm going to break it up into a bunch of posts and label them clearly. Forewarned, etc.