Organizing Tips with Clean Mama

Hi Idea Room Readers - it’s Becky from the Clean Mama blog and Clean Mama Printables! Today’s Organizing Tip is a simple one – KEEP A LIST. I have found that keeping a “running” list for the household is essential in managing to-do’s and tasks at hand. This saves time and energy by keeping all of my to do’s in one place. This is nothing new, people have been keeping to-do lists for a long time, I’m merely suggesting keeping them all in one place for easy access and simplification.

What are the benefits of keeping ONE to-do list?
*all your to-do lists are in one place – no searching
*track your progress in one place
*peace of mind – organize your thoughts
*sense of accomplishment (even a simple task gets a check mark)

How to use this list:
*use the philosophy of doing the worst tasks first
*track kids projects and activities
*divide it by different people in your household’s tasks
*use it as a shopping or destination list
*separate by home and work tasks
*use it for Monday-Friday and Saturday/Sunday tasks
*laminate and use with a dry erase marker
*use it to organize thoughts/tasks for an event

Here’s how I use my sectioned to do list:

I divided it up as HOME, WORK, INSIDE PROJECTS, OUTSIDE PROJECTS, KIDS, and PHONECALLS/EMAILS. How will you divide up your to do list? You can go here and grab one!

March 17, 2011 · Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged with

Comments

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Suzanne says:

March 17, 2011 at 12:23 pm

Thank you for the printable. I like the simplicity of it, the color and the ease with which I can customize it.

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Randi says:

March 17, 2011 at 12:38 pm

I love that little to-do list for dividing up kids' chores. We often have little work sessions and the kids report back to me for their next task. It would be great to post that on the fridge and they could just go.

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Patti says:

March 17, 2011 at 1:56 pm

I have lists all over the place. Inside repairs, craft projects, housecleaning, stuff to organize…on and on. I have to keep a list or I easily get off task and feel like I'm running in circles. Without a list to check off I get nothing completed!(I seriously think I have ADD). Thanks for the great printable!

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Melanie says:

March 17, 2011 at 2:17 pm

I have been looking for a good one of these. LOVE IT!

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Melanie says:

March 17, 2011 at 2:21 pm

Ps. I can't get the link to work. I have tried a few different ways/times

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Clean Mama says:

March 17, 2011 at 3:31 pm

Hi Melanie – the link is working, just super slow. If you can't get it to work, email me at [email protected] and I'll email you the pdf.

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Valerie says:

March 17, 2011 at 5:53 pm

I love how colorful and happy this list looks compared to my boring one. It makes it less daunting to look at.

Thanks for sharing!!

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Kami Gimenez says:

March 17, 2011 at 9:58 pm

I LOVE this and I'm going to print it up for sure!
Kami Gimenez

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Tara says:

March 20, 2011 at 5:55 pm

I love this! Thanks so much for sharing!!

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Rita says:

March 26, 2011 at 9:25 am

Thanks for sharing incredible idea of “To Do List”. Using a few time management techniques will help us to get organized quickly and effortlessly… which in turn helps us to achieve our goals! A simple time management technique anyone can make use of is a “to-do list”. I love your list and I am going to print it.

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Natalie says:

January 12, 2013 at 6:48 pm

Love the list…I am thinking i could run them off on post it notes too