591 - Preparing For Projects - Step 2 - Overflow Room 1 - Laundry Room
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
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🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
How does our laundry room explode? And is there any way we can have it looking like a magazine? Let's discuss. Now, you may not have a laundry room. Yours may be in the basement, so yours may not work the way my laundry room does. As I'm talking about this, it may be a different space in your house. It may be a spare bedroom. It may be a home office. Or it may be the dining room table. I'm going to go through two more spaces in the next two weeks. So if you're like, "I have bomb explosions in every room of my house," there are different kinds of explosions. So we're gonna talk about the different kinds.
Before the Sunday Basket®, everything I'm going to tell you about would be in the laundry room plus my bills, mail, my actionables. So when I got to Sunday, I would be like "what do I have going on?" "Where are my things?" No one is ONLY doing laundry in their laundry room. Period. No one is. So I'm going to encourage you to go on over to organize365.com and sign up for the Free Week of The Productive Home Solution®, which is the laundry room.
Things that might end up in here are the following: things that you need for a project, but won't fit in your Sunday Basket®. Things that are in process that we don't want to forget. Items for the next holiday, for summer vacation, projects that are ongoing that get delayed, backpacks at the end of the school year (that don't get emptied out until weeks before the next school year!). Things that may be incoming or outgoing into the house - birthday gifts that need to be wrapped, things that need to be returned, donated, or you're not quite sure what to do with it yet.
The Free Week of The Productive Home Solution® is a great introduction to it, because the way I organize a room is not the way people normally would. Go ahead and clean out your laundry room, look at it with different eyes. Next week, we're going to talk about my garage - which may be your storage area, your den, your porch, your family room, but we all have this space. We'll check that out next week.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's mailbag comes to us from Elena. I'm only a week into the |
| 0:05.4 | productive home solution and I am so glad I've listened to Lisa for months saying |
| 0:10.2 | to stay focused on the one area. |
| 0:13.4 | Don't get ahead of yourself and everything else is going to come together in time. |
| 0:18.5 | I moved into our home a few months ago and it was a major upgrade in space. A result of that is that our home isn't |
| 0:25.6 | fully stocked and we have a wish list a mile long. I've been so overwhelmed with trying to |
| 0:30.9 | budget and plan for getting the full house functioning correctly. |
| 0:36.0 | This week by focusing on the extra bathrooms, I was able to prioritize what I needed to make these |
| 0:42.4 | spaces function better and was one able to pull from a stash or stock elsewhere in the house and |
| 0:48.7 | Two knew that my discretionary spending this week was going towards completing an area of the house. |
| 0:55.2 | I ordered new trash cans and cleaning supplies to fill out the stock for each bathroom |
| 1:00.0 | and will be able to keep those rooms clean without traipsing across the house to collect supplies, |
| 1:05.5 | and will almost certainly be solid on organization in those rooms for the next year. |
| 1:10.7 | The feeling of finished is so much better than a random assortment of |
| 1:14.7 | organizational products or knickknacks that will be scattered across the house |
| 1:19.1 | with minimal impact. Does anyone else tend to buy small marginally impactful items non-stop and wonder why life isn't getting easier? |
| 1:30.0 | Thanks Lisa for the reminders to stay focused. |
| 1:33.2 | P.S. in preparing the bathrooms, I'm also maintaining areas that are pre-organized from moving |
| 1:38.9 | and general Lisa principles before purchasing the Productive Home Solution, and streamlining some of the areas |
| 1:45.2 | in the linen closet, storage room, etc, without getting drawn in. |
| 1:49.3 | I know that when it's time for those spaces, I'll be more prepared to tackle them in the context of |
| 1:54.5 | what has already been done. Do you have an organized 365 success story? If so, we |
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